Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wholesale" campaign. Democratic primary votes for Chavez: 65,000; for Elzer S. ("Johnny") Walker, his Democratic opponent: 35,000. Along the way, Chavez' 1952 foe, Pat Hurley, decided not to run, leaving it virtually a certainty that the Republican nominee, Rancher Forrest Atchley of Clayton, will lose to Dennis Chavez in November...
...Zealand to give thousands of natives hope that they may once again become "white and delightsome." According to New Zealand Mormon President Ariel S. Ballif, the way is simple: "As they take up the righteous way of living, they become more attractive and acceptable to white people and lose their dark skin [by intermarriage...
Symes gave some of the answers. Not only did the Pennsy lose $14.9 million in the first quarter, but "business continues at a very low ebb. presently running about 22% behind a year ago." In a crash drive to save money, the line cut its work force by a fifth in the past year, is doing practically no heavy maintenance work. Its cash is "exceedingly low," and its prospects for a profit in 1958 "extremely doubtful." The Pennsy has skipped its dividends for the first two quarters this year. When a stockholder asked if the Pennsy would pay any dividend...
...prowler. The prosecuting attorney, in real life Manhattan's Seventh District Assemblyman Daniel Kelly, had built up a damaging case against her. "It all looks very black for us, but wait until I take the stand!" she cried. Verdict's lawyers get just as engaged, lose their tempers in "court," on one occasion nearly came to blows afterward. Said Betsy's Defense Attorney Richard Tilden: "I didn't sleep well nights, worrying about that case...
...offering only the fifty-fifty split. But this was more fiction than fact, because they also offered huge bonuses, bigger than Indiana Standard's. Iran chose the smaller bonus and bigger split, gambling that Standard will find a huge new field. If it fails to, then Iran will lose the gamble...