Word: margins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baltimore firm of W. T. Shackelford & Co. lost National Distillers-policies between $70,000,000 and $80,000,000. Through Joseph P. Kennedy came policies insuring Scotch whiskeys in overseas transit. "Jimmy became, by a wide margin, the biggest whiskey-insurance man in America...
...Open record with a score of 281 last year. Now, comfortably employed as pro at New Jersey's Braidburn Country Club, he is the first golfer since Bobby Jones to win the Open twice in succession. Only one golfer before him ever won by a bigger margin (Jim Barnes by nine strokes...
...present, the Crimson leads the field by a percentage margin with a record of seven wins and two losses with three games left to play. Dartmouth has won eight and lost three, and Saturday's game is her final contest. If Harvard can win the game, it is at least assured of a tie for the title, even if it should lose its remaining games with Yale...
...defeat every effort to attach penalties, however light, to political use of relief billions. New Mexico's Hatch, a Democrat, and Vermont's Austin, a Republican, each tried to prohibit WPA administrative employes from taking active part in elections. Each was voted down by a close margin, the first by three votes and the second...
...Cracked down on 13 major oil companies and eleven of their officers. Accused of illegally fixing the margin of profit for independent jobbers in the "second Madison oil case." these defendants fortnight ago pleaded nolo contendere (TIME, June 6). Last week. Federal Judge Patrick T. Stone of Madison, Wis. fined them a total of $360,000 plus $25,000 costs...