Word: losers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ultimate outcome of the ETO poker game will largely determine the size of the sailboat Spaatz intends to moor in the Potomac after the war. After 18 months he is about even, but all the players agree he is sure to wind up either a big winner or big loser. Aside from the sailboat, Tooey has another special dream of heaven-to come home to Alexandria in the evening and sit down on the floor of the living room. Then Tatty will mix him a pale highball. His second daughter Becky (wife of an air force lieutenant and mother...
...bouts follow intercollegiate rules and last for three 90-second rounds. The fighters use 16-oz. gloves, but make up for it with furious, all-out assaults. One night five knockouts were scored. The winner gets $5 in war stamps, the loser...
...been as robust as in 1943. Last week Dr. (of philosophy) Weld's indexes in Printers' Ink told publishers in fine what they had known in general. Spacewise, all advertising was up 14.6% over 1942. The gains: newspapers 12.2%, magazines 28.5%, farm papers 39.9%. The only loser: outdoor advertising...
...Loser. Grey, glossy Paul McNutt had stubbornly fought the bill because it would "sabotage" his so-called overall manpower program. The President's signature was a staggering blow to the man who gave up his almost-sure nomination as the 1940 Vice-Presidential candidate in favor of Mr. Roosevelt's man Wallace...
...experts.* Last week the State Department announced that Mexico, now fat with U.S. dollars, had made final arrangements to settle its debt in full. With the final annual payment in September 1947, Mexico will own all U.S. oil properties outright for a total of $29,137,700.84. Chief loser: the die-hard anti-expropriationist Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), whose 75% share in the settlement is an accurate index of its onetime much greater stake in Mexico...