Word: facing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first of a series of five straight away games, the varsity soccer team will travel to Williamstown this afternoon to face the Ephmen. Varsity Coach Bruce Munro's squad will not play another game at home until November 1 when they meet Pennsylvania...
...second-rate circuses in Italy, and cast the leading role as close as possible to this ideal. In fact, it is safe to say that no woman in the world is remotely like Giulietta Masina; that may be one reason her performance carries such conviction. Masina's face, though never down-rightly funny, is always comic--and usually pathetic into the bargain. Even when not made up in clown-white, it is a clown-face. It seems to be changing, frowning, smiling, always with one eye on the reaction of its audience--perhaps this is the essential quality...
...agreements tend to set prices too high, make quotas too rigid. Furthermore, metals controls are easily frustrated by the discovery of new or cheaper sources of supply-or by the market dealings of a maverick. The International Tin Council ran out of cash trying to support prices in the face of Russian dumping because it set its floor price at an unrealistic level of 91¼? per lb. With the council out of support funds, the price dropped to 80? per lb., is now firming...
...quickest way to cure the glut in many commodities is not a governmental plan but voluntary agreements to trim output and bring supply in line with demand. The copper industry has shown how producers can solve many of their own problems. Copper producers voluntarily cut back production in the face of a big supply and falling prices. The market stabilized itself without any artificial controls, and last week copper prices were moving...
Sell Mamma. "But the problem dog food manufacturers still face," says Rival Executive Vice President Joseph Getlin, "is getting across to the housewife-not the dog-the advantages of a nutritious single food." Some vets also disagree with the unvarying ration theory, and at least one company (Laddie Boy) is coming out with such varying dishes as whale meat, hash and eggs. But most big canners still insist that the one-dish menu is right; all have big experimental kennels where they constantly check their formulas on kennels of fine dogs. Says Pard Division Head Clarence M. Olson: "If humans...