Word: mattes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last summer the Communists set out to test U.N. determination by breaking off the talks for two months. The result was to bring Matt Ridgway's army down on them with almost as much weight as before, and the Reds came meekly back to the table and gave up their demand for a truce line on the 38th parallel. Washington might have learned a lesson. Instead, it all but stopped the pressure. U.N. settled down to a wait & see campaign. Casualties fell off, but over the past ten weeks the U.S. has still suffered a weekly average loss...
Before last week, the course had been run only twice. In 1938 Dick Durrance did it in twelve minutes; a year later, Austria's Toni Matt went down wide open in the seemingly unbelievable time of 6 min. 29 sec. This year, 13 topnotch skiers made up their minds to try it despite the foul weather-not from the summit, but from a point three-quarters of the way up the mountain...
...similar bill. Witness Rivers Peterson, managing director of the National Retail Hardware Association, cried that the small retailer is entitled to protection "from exploitation on the part of the predatory price-cutter," just as labor is protected by minimum-wage laws. Retorted the American Farm Bureau Federation's Matt Trigg: Such devices provide "an umbrella for the inefficient" and are inconsistent with a free, competitive economy. Echoed Q. (for Quentin) Forrest Walker, economist for Macy's: "The simple truth is that no group fights for price-fixing privileges except to make prices higher than they would be under...
This means that General Matt Ridgway's command (seven divisions) has taken two-thirds the amount sent to Mac-Arthur (21 divisions) for the march from New Guinea to the Philippines, about one-fourth the amount shipped by the Army to the entire Pacific Theater, including Asia and Alaska, in nearly four years of World...
...match at Hemenway yesterday the varsity "C" whitewashed the Union Boat Club, 5 to 0. Haddon Tomes beat Howe, 12 15, 15 12, 15-10, 15-11; John Rauh beat Henry Pinkham, 15-11, 11-15, 15-6, 12-15, 15-12. Steve Sonnabend beat Matt Marshall, 15-12, 15-10, 15-12; Paul Garrigue beat Len Wheeler, 15-10, 11-15, 15-11, 15-13; and Bert Johnson beat Art Pinkhame...