Word: contesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born to poverty. Her father was a drifting railroad mechanic; her mother a Polish farmer's daughter. During her childhood in San Bernardino, Calif., her teachers despaired of her. She skipped classes, made eyes at the boys, and got miserable grades. She entered a beauty contest at twelve and won fourth prize, a pair of stockings. At 15 she married a youth named Irving Wheeler. He was not a touchstone to happiness, and she left him in three weeks...
...Francisco's Chinese girls, oxidized by Occidentalism, celebrated the Fourth of July by wearing skimpy bathing suits in the first American-style beauty contest ever held in Chinatown...
...years ago the Ontario Northland Railway called on chefs of the province for a typical Ontario dish to set before tourists. First prize went to a thrifty meat pie (rabbit, chicken or beef). Saskatchewan ran the same kind of contest, finally gave the first prize to a doughy chicken turnover. In cattle-conscious Alberta a third competition ended up with an old standby: a king-sized steak...
...hall for the first time since the convention opened, Tom Dewey declared: "I come to you unfettered by a single obligation or promise to any living person." He referred to the convention as "an honorable contest" and warmly praised his adversaries. "We are a united party," he said. "Our nation stands tragically in need of that same unity...
...President can force any "plant, mine, or other facility" to give top priority to defense orders, no matter how large. If the Government thinks the prices too high, it can cut them to its estimate of "fair and just compensation." Even more important than this contest of prices and production, the President can order the steel industry to allocate unlimited amounts of its output to defense plants. Any company that balks is subject to Government seizure. Any individual who fails to comply faces a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a $50,000 fine...