Word: matches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prosperity's Victims. Harlan's crisis has a combination of sources. For one, demand for its rich bituminous coal will never again match the good old days of the '20s, when production zoomed to 14.5 million tons a year. For another, Harlan's miners, members of the U.M.W. for the past 18 years, are in a sense victims of other miners' prosperity. Rising labor costs (Harlan operators have so far refused to sign a new U.M.W. contract under which miners would get $14.25 a day to enter a mine, 76? more per ton to load...
...bidders. And in the Ruhr several major industrial firms are mulling over plans for a "Mideast pool" which would merge their commercial influence and intelligence services in a single network of "contact offices." Aware that such devices make West Germany best able of all Western nations to match the techniques of Soviet state capitalism in the Middle East, West Germany's canny traders expect to go on giving the Soviet-bloc nations a hard run for their money -and Western competitors an even harder run for theirs...
Then Foster, returning to action at 177 after missing the Penn match, put the varsity ahead, remaining unbeaten with a 5-4 win over Ralph DeMuccio...
After Dave Skeels had lost to the Gymnasts' Bob Campana, 3-0, in the opening 123-lb. match, the visitors' Art Moses, one of the best 130-pounders in the East, swarmed all over the varsity's Carl Kludt, nearly pinning him at least three times, for a 12-0 decision. Watkins then put the Crimson in the scoring column with an easy 5-0 victory over Jerry Cook...
Holmes, moving up from 147 to 167 to replace the injured Rick Sullivan, continued the Crimson pace, tying the match with a 4-3 decision over John Schaefer. The varsity wrestler scored two take-downs in the first two periods and held on the rest...