Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last winter that he would win 19 or 20 of the state of Washington's 24 delegates. Then the Eisenhower forces went to work. They turned up last week in Spokane with a solid majority of the state convention delegates. The Taft minority threatened to walk out and hold a rump convention of their own. After ten hours of the stormiest politicking the state could remember, the issue was settled by the Ike majority electing 20 delegates, granting 4 to Taft...
...policeman moved in to break up the trouble, only to stop back suddenly and hold the group at bay with his revolver. He was joined shortly by four paddy wagone, out of which emerged 40 cops. Use of night sticks aided in the arrest of 39 rioters; among those booked was a Somerville druggist, who happened to get off a bus at the wrong time...
...world's title fight, some 42,000 fans went wild as Japan's Yoshiro Shirai, 28 and a sharp counterpuncher, outpointed Hawaii's aging (35) Dado Marino for the flyweight (112 Ibs.) title. Like Lightweight Salas, Shirai is the first fighter from his country ever to hold a world championship. The U.S., once the stronghold of boxing, now owns only half of the eight world titles. Others outside the U.S.: the welterweight (147 Ibs.) championship held by Cuba's Kid Gavilan, and the bantamweight (118 Ibs.) held by South Africa's Vic Toweel...
...Baltic, which set a transatlantic average speed of 13.34 knots in 1852, was the last U.S.-built ship to hold the record...
...whisky market is now glutted: warehouses hold 900 million gals. of whisky, 80% more than ten years ago. Reason: many customers are buying less, or shifting to lighter drinks, because of stiff federal taxes on spirits, boosted last year from $9 a gal. to $10.50. At retail the price is still higher because venders add their normal markup (average 22%) to the tax itself* While the Big Four distillers (Schenley, National, Seagram's and Hiram Walker) insist that they will maintain prices, smaller distillers have already begun to cut prices of straight whiskies. Sample: United Distillers has slashed...