Word: finding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wily Willie, a shrewd hand and a good boxer, hung on, dodged, shook loose the cobwebs between rounds. Just before the bell ended the 15th, Pep was in trouble again; as he ducked a punch he sagged, momentarily helpless, against the ropes. Saddler swayed toward him-trying to find strength for just one more swing. He couldn't, and the bell ended one of the most rousing scraps in Garden history...
...Haagen-Smit did his laborious job for the Hawaiian pineapple growers, who believe that they can grow and market better pineapples if they know the chemical origin of the fruit's admired flavor. But Dr. Haagen-Smit's main interest is to find out what flavor really...
With angry U.S. farmers breathing hotly on its neck, the Administration was desperately trying to find a way of dealing with the glut. Congressmen considered several bills providing for the Government to take over-or build-more storage space. Secretary Brannan mulled the possibility of listing wheat officially as surplus. That would force EGA, which recently approved the purchase of 140 million bushels of Canadian wheat for Britain at lower than U.S. prices, to buy all its grains at home. EGA could ship more grain to Europe, since it could now buy more with the funds allotted. The Department...
...Washington hearing room, Giannini and Eccles met face to face. In the first use of its antitrust powers in 34 years, FRB was out to prove Transamerica a monopoly. To the witness stand went Eccles. He had disqualified himself as a judge in the case, only to find that as far as Giannini was concerned, it was Eccles who was on trial...
Hollywood, which had neurotically exaggerated its economic doldrums (TIME, Dec. 27), was startled last week to find its new-found optimism dramatized at last. For the first time in eleven years, M-G-M summoned 81 of its far-flung sales executives to hear the good news straight from the front office: the company, which released 24 pictures last year, was going to turn out an imposing total of 67 in the next 12 to 15 months...