Word: hurt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lightweight division has been for some time a match between cocky little Tony Canzoneri, whose puffy mouth stretches all the way across his broad, flat face, and saturnine, hammer-handed Billy Petrolle, "The Fargo Express," with Canzoneri defending his title. It was scheduled for last summer, postponed when Petrolle hurt his arm in training, finally fought out last week before a capacity crowd at Madison Square Garden...
After groping in the swirling mist until their fuel ran low, one Boeing after another came down. Some found North Island; others reached Lindbergh Field across the bay; some landed on Army's Rockwell Field. One was demolished, one burned, several nosed over. No pilot was hurt. Meanwhile the two Corsairs continued to mill about in the peasoup. The only nearby field not fog-shrouded, an unused port near Camp Kearny, was hastily floodlit by the headlights of hundreds of volunteer motorists, but the Corsair pilots could not know about that...
...Democratic stage, captured the convention, nominated his man for President, took over the national chairmanship, scrapped the fine Raskob machine and set his own running as the official party organization. These events had left Mr. Raskob not bitter-John Raskob is a sportsman -but chagrinned, dismayed, hurt. Since June he had kept his distance from Chairman Farley and the Roosevelt bandwagon...
...Though the free trade Laborites and Liberals never mustered more than 90 opposition votes, Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain thought it necessary to lecture them, taking as his text Charles M. Schwab. Steelman Schwab had just said in London, ''Of course my business will be hurt by the Ottawa accords, but if the British Empire prospers as a result that will help us all," Cried Chancellor Chamberlain to the House of Commons, "There is true statesmanship in the remark of that man who is not a citizen of the British Empire! I wish all our citizens...
...Messrs. Hill, Williams, Toms & Belt do about it? FORTUNE suggests five possible ways of eliminating 10? competition: 1) Raising the price of tobacco just enough to wipe out the ten-centers' profit margin. This can be done by heavy buying, but surplus stocks over a long period would hurt the 15-centers. 2) Ceasing their opposition to governmental increase of cigaret taxes from $3 to $3.50 per 1,000, an expensive remedy. 3) Cutting prices. 4) Putting out special "fighting brands" of 10? cigarets. 5) Training their advertising guns directly at the enemy, which might do the ten-center...