Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gillette's seven foreign plants (Berlin, London, Buenos Aires, Paris, Zurich, Montreal and Rio de Janeiro) are also working at capacity. In foreign trade, Spang had gotten around the lack of dollars and other currency troubles by a system of "compensation trading." Thus, Swiss-made blades are being exchanged in Italy for tomatoes, asparagus, and strawberries, in Austria for wood, in Czechoslovakia for glass. The goods are then sold in Switzerland for francs and the francs exchanged for U.S. dollars to buy raw materials for Gillette's foreign factories...
...coaching staffs in the key game of the year with the knowledge that they must play all the men who rate awards. "If the score had been 21 to 21," Dick Harlow said after the last Yale game, "I'm afraid a lot of kids wouldn't have gotten their letters." Injured men patently cannot play in a game, Yale or otherwise, and there have been cases in the past where a man got an early season broken leg instead...
...early stages of engineering, planning and bidding. When down payments totaling $5,100,000 had to be made to the War Assets Administration, Dillon, Read's help was sought. Dillon, Read & Co., with the Browns, et al, lent Texas Eastern $1,350,000 (which they have gotten back) and brought in Reginald Hargrove, a veteran United Gas Corp. executive. Among themselves the founders and Dillon, Read divided 150,000 shares of common stock. They paid $1 a share for it and split it into 1,050,000 shares...
...ever coached, Harlow is obliged to combine his teams of 1937 which beat an undefeated Yale 13-6, and the 1941 squad, "dear to my heart because of adversity." But despite some of the drudge character of football today, Harlow is quick to insist that the has never gotten more out of any bunch than his present team. "They have given everything they have," he says. "They have done everything I have tod them...
Cornell handed the Bulldog Jrs. their only loss of the autumn in the first game of the season by a 13 to 6 score, but since then nobody has gotten closer than eight points to them. And Columbia, which is generally compared to the Phillies in Jayvee circles, fell by the wayside 59 to 0, and the Yalies continued on, blasting Connecticut and Rutgers...