Word: matches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matches played Tuesday, William Fuller and Charlotte Sullivan trounced the Genehi-Carroll duo, 6-1, 6-1 to reach the final. The other match, also a semi-final contest in the mixed doubles division, was won by Atkinson and Moore, 6-1, 14-12. The tournament schedule has had to be tightened considerably because of rain...
...Funds for low-interest student loans, to be administered by colleges and universities. Institutions could receive up to $250,000 a year, would be required to match at least 25% of federal funds with their own money...
Weighing the size of Russia's Sputniks, U.S. experts have surmised that the Russians may have a massive, single-chamber rocket engine for which the U.S. has no match. The U.S.'s most powerful engine develops only 150,000 Ibs. of thrust, is made by Rocketdyne Division of North American Aviation, Inc. for the Thor and Jupiter (the considerably larger Atlas uses a cluster of engines). Last week Rocketdyne was starting work on an Air Force contract for developing a monster engine with 1,000,000 Ibs. of thrust...
...month steelmen anxiously waited for U.S. Steel, the industry's pace setter, to raise its prices to match the automatic July 1 wage increase (cost: 26? an hour). But Big Steel, which led the industry in eleven of the twelve boosts since World War II, this time plainly intended to let someone else lead the way-and take the political walloping that was sure to follow. Moreover, Big Steel probably needed a raise least, because of increased efficiency in its operations (see below). Last week Armco Steel's President R. L. Gray finally took the step, raised...
...Item's failure: the "unit" ad rate of the Times-Picayune and States, which forced national and classified advertisers to take space in both papers, or neither. The Times-Picayune announced that, just to keep competition alive, it would resell the Item to any bidder willing to match the $3,400,000 price within 60 days. But the Item was clearly marked for merger with the States, and New Orleans was fated to join the ranks of the monopoly-ownership newspaper cities...