Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rollback In Beef. The most thunderous salvo of the week was fired by Price Controller Mike Di Salle. He ordered an 18% cut (about 5? a Ib.) by next Oct. 1 in the price that may be paid for live cattle. He also fixed dollars & cents ceilings on wholesale and retail beef prices, and set up stand-by machinery for beef rationing (although price officials hastened to say that they saw no prospect of rationing in the near future...
...River, near Uijongbu, the Chinese managed to isolate the 1st Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment.* For three days, their comrades tried in vain to relieve the Gloucesters. With most of their ammunition gone, the Gloucesters' commanding officer ordered his men to break out any way they could. Maurice ("Mike") Harvey, a slim, spectacled young captain, was one of the few who made...
Gene Mann, playing second in singles and third in doubles, also won twice. Mike Ward was his partner. The other Yardling win came when Frank Goodman won his sixth singles match...
...while I was on the rail, Watching Deitsch (7-2), Tortenson (4-I), and Edge (S-2) working the course, my friend Terror Mike was casing this McKinley nag. Mike says she took the High Jump back in Sheboygan, and that she says she's very limber. But Mike says to me, "Clocker," he says, "Who ever saw a doll who could race...
...have to excuse Mike because he's only six years old and doesn't know too much...