Word: grabs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...balance it out by boosting appliances to 30% of his overall sales. To do that, he spends millions on improvements. Westinghouse engineers experimented for ten years and spent $790,000 before they got a Frost-Free refrigerator that worked; the first on the market, it enabled Westinghouse to grab bigger sales. In Columbus, Ohio, Westinghouse will shortly open a new refrigerator plant bigger than its huge appliance center at Mansfield, Ohio. Just to get the dealers ready for the 1953 line, Price spent $1,500,000 for a musical to acquaint dealers in 38 cities with "The Greatest Appliance Show...
...Princeton game Monday was "certainly the best game we've played since I've been here," Shepard said. The Crimson managed to grab an impressive number of rebounds--22 more than the Tigers--while hitting 39 percent from the floor...
Morally uplifted by his love for Susan, Audie eventually 1) annihilates a group of real-estate operators who are trying to grab the ranch of Susan's father (Paul Kelly), 2) rounds up Kelly's cattle and drives them to market against obstacles, natural and otherwise, 3) clinches with Susan in a Technicolor fadeout. In its resolutely conventional blend of sagebrush and six-shooters, Gunsmoke manages not to violate in any detail the venerable horse-opera formula established by The Great Train Robbery 50 years...
...sees himself as a sage as well as a strong man. Last week some of Perón's lectures at the Peronista Normal School for party leaders were published in book form in Buenos Aires; they glittered with inside dope on how to grab and hold political power. Points from the Perón philosophy...
...most tempting plums in the Republican election year grab-bag was tax reduction. Eisenhower promised progressive cuts in income taxes, natural death of the excess profits tax, and a balanced budget to boot. The money for this financial revamping was to come mainly from a reduction in the out-sized military budget...