Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former Mayor Frank Hague Eggers of Jersey City, is supporting Troast. One of Meyner's TV films shows three pairs of feet walking down cellar stairs, a reference to the former Republican state chairman's testimony that three gamblers once came to his basement recreation room to demand protection for their payoff. Meyner has flooded New Jersey's redolent air with a radio jingle to the tune of Carolina in the morning...
...together only by the unflagging good temper of U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Jefferson Caffery, Britain and Egypt last week fell out over the Suez. They decided to suspend their talks-but not to end them. Actually, their many original disagreements had been narrowed to two: ¶ Egypt's demand that the 4,000 British technicians (slated to stay on for 5½ years after 80,000 British troops leave, in order to train Egyptian replacements) wear civvies; Britain insists that they stay in uniform...
After yesterday's ticket rush by Juniors, seats were sold through all of section 35 and the huge demand spilled over into section 36, from the top down...
Part of Willie Shoemaker's secret of success is keeping busy (a phenomenal 1,364 mounts so far this year). At 22, he has been riding for only 4½ years, and such veterans as Eddie Arcaro and Ted Atkinson are more in demand for the big stakes. But no ordinary jockey could keep as winningly busy as Willie does, and his merits are fully appreciated by his peers. Arcaro says flatly that Willie already ranks with "the greatest in the country." Sharp-eyed old Earl Sande also ranks Willie with the best, and adds that if Arcaro himself...
...from any given field, in order to get as much oil as possible out of the ground (in the commission's jargon, M.E.R., for maximum efficient rate). But there are still some arguments about the commission's policy of basing its production limits on the estimated market demand. This practice, say its enemies, amounts to price-fixing...