Word: held
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next spring an entirely new competition will be held for the 1950 sophomore managerships...
Tryouts for the triangular debates to be held in December against Yale and Princeton will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, November 22 in the Germanic Museum. This series of debates will argue the topic, whether Communist teachers should be allowed to teach in American colleges...
...rich new strike. Day after day on the New York Stock Exchange, the cheap stock of a Philippine gold-mining company, Benguet Consolidated Mining Co., was among the heaviest traded. Wall Street's Bache & Co. was busily selling unrefined gold (the only kind that can be legally held in the U.S.) at premium prices ($44 an ounce). In London, South African gold-mining stocks were ones eagerly bought in a falling market...
...Mueller Co. (macaroni, spaghetti & noodles), Ramsey Corp. (piston rings), the $3,300,000 American Limoges China Inc. and the $35 million Howes Leather Co. On their earnings the companies would be paying all told an estimated $1,500,000 a year in federal taxes, if they were still privately held...
...right behind bar) told him to clear out. Trying to scare Granillo, Gray pretended to call the cops. "He started coming toward me," said Gray. "He started calling me a lotta names. I got rattled." From behind the bar he grabbed a pistol, shot and killed Eugene Granillo. Police held Bartender Gray on a homicide charge...