Word: main
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main spectator event of the day was an exhibition tennis match between Class Marshal W. Barry Wood and former New England Tennis Champion (currently ranked sixth) Chauncey Depew Steele, Jr. Wood bowed to the local hotel manager...
...Suchmann want to shoot this particular scene? "Because it's one of the main things alumni remember," he explains...
Inevitable Rule. Well aware that the members of Kenya's eleven main tribal groups and hundreds of clannish subgroups find little agreement among themselves, many white Kenya colonists stood by confidently awaiting the first signs of schism among the eight African parliamentarians, but the signs never appeared. "The eight of us will differ in matters of detail," said Mboya, "but on the basic question, we don't." Fortnight ago, as Mboya's restlessness was felt more and more throughout the land, penetrating even the Mau Mau detention camps, Kenya's government ordered government tape recorders installed...
...burned a hotel, tobacco-curing sheds, warehouses with $2,500,000 worth of sugar. A train was derailed. And, in one explosive day, President Fulgencio Batista's troops fought two separate battles against rebel forces in the eastern province of Oriente just as a bomb blast in a main electric cable conduit paralyzed downtown Havana...
...Reynolds Metals absorbs a big part of the food costs annually for 1,100 Louisville workers. Thompson Products lost $61,000 last year serving employees 7,000 meals daily; Ford figures the loss at around 8? per customer to feed 3,000 workers at the Dearborn main headquarters. Part of the reason for the loss is that industrial firms must pay plant union wages and fringe benefits, which sometimes come to $2.50 an hour for the most menial kitchen help. A bigger problem is that most executives do not know how to supervise food expenses...