Word: margin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usually travels to the Olympic games and in 1948 there may be some other nations to play it. If there are and the executive committee decides to send one, the players would be picked individually through regional tryouts. America always wins the Olympic basketball crown by a top-heavy margin, but apparently Europe wants to try again this year and a team will be sent probably picked from the squads who make the finals of the New York Garden tournaments this winter...
...Orleans, Rice, considered the best in the Southwest Conference, faced Louisiana State University, rated the pick of the Southeastern Conference. L.S.U. won, 21 to 14. The margin of difference was principally L.S.U.'s Yelberton Abraham Tittle Jr., one of the nimblest and headiest T-formation quarterbacks in the business. Elsewhere in the South, two perennial powerhouses-Tennessee (to Georgia Tech, 27-0) and Alabama (to Tulane, 21-20)-lost their first games of the season...
...Everywhere we have gone," said Vermont's Senator Ralph E. Flanders, machine-tool manufacturer, ex-president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and subcommittee chairman, "we have found that the margin of profit per dollar of sales has been very narrow." Robert A. Seidel, vice president of the W. T. Grant Co. (500 stores), testified that Grant's margin of profit in the first six months this year was only 3.1% of the consumer's dollar, compared to 6.4% in the same period last year. The committee also pinned down another fact: despite all the hullabaloo...
...Margins. The blame for the food rise, said Flanders, had been chased "pretty well back to the commodity exchanges and the farmers." The subcommittee did not know what to do about the farmers. But it wired President Truman to find means to curb speculation and margin trading in commodity exchanges...
...narrow five-point margin separating the two elevens at the final gun can be directly pinned on spotty Crimson backfield work, both offensive and defensive...