Word: grab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PILLSBURY Mills and Kellogg Co. have joined forces to try to grab a big part of the baking-mix market in Canada before General Mills gets a new Toronto plant into production. The two firms have formed a new company, Kellogg-Pillsbury Co. of Canada, which will start operations at Kellogg's London, Ont. plant, will expand later...
...York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. The man Buck Dumaine wanted to "give it to" was Patrick B. McGinnis, the Wall Street railroad juggler who recently collided with the ICC over his expense accounts while boss of the Norfolk Southern (TIME, Feb. 22). In 1948 McGinnis helped old Frederic Dumaine grab control of the New Haven, bought 75,000 shares of stock, largely for clients. But now McGinnis doesn't like the way Buck Dumaine runs the road, and is waging a proxy fight to take over the road at the April 14 stockholders meeting...
...magnet is quiet, snoring softly, but in a ring-shaped vacuum chamber running around inside it, a dangerous, man-made genie throbs and thrashes. Out of an electric arc springs a swarm of protons (hydrogen nuclei). Powerful forces grab them and speed them down a channel toward the great machine. They sail into the chamber, and the magnet steers them in a circular orbit...
Flynn came way out to grab defenseman Bob Siblo's bounder at 8:00 of the first period only to have the puck dribble past him into the net. Less than two minutes later, Frank Quinn scored his first of three on an assist from defenseman Cisternelli. Twice more within the next four minutes the light flashed red behind the Crimson net, but both scores were recalled for rule infractions. On the first, Billy Maguire was off-sides, and on the second three B.C. players had been crowded in the cease. Cisternelli set up the third Eagel Goal...
...Middles Grab Lead...