Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heavyweight and captain Bill Malone is Columbia's third best wrestler and the only senior on the team. Mike Guaizijan, at 123, is the only other regular, since the other men shift back and forth between the varsity and jayvees...
...Tigers, fourth-place team in the Eastern League, use a weaving offense to free men just past the foul line. From there, Captain Mike Kearns and sophomore Dave Sisler get most of their points on jump shots. Weak spot on the Princeton quintet is the center, where six-foot-seven sophomore Foster Cooper is a little clumsy and inexperienced for Ed Smith...
...chance for congressional approval of a 1941 Canadian-American agreement for joint construction of the project looks better than usual. But it is far from assured. The anti-seaway lobby is still deeply entrenched on Capitol Hill. Meanwhile, Canadian patience is wearing thin. Said External Affairs Minister Lester ("Mike") Pearson in Ottawa last week: "The Americans say we are dragging our feet in world affairs. The biggest and longest dragging of feet I have known in my entire career is that of the Americans on the St. Lawrence seaway...
...Price Boss Mike DiSalle brushed away these arguments. To him, the vaunted "delicate mechanism" of the cotton futures market is just a device to enable speculators and middlemen to get rich. Production would not be cut by the freeze he said, because farmers could make good money with cotton at 45? a lb. (the pre-freeze U.S. price). Without a freeze, he added, prices would rise from 20% to 30%, and speculators would profit...
Thaw Flaw. Cotton men thought the market would stabilize again if a big new crop comes in. After all, they said, cotton was uncontrolled during World War II and rose only 3? a lb. Mike DiSalle spotted the flaw in that argument: during the war there was a cotton surplus: now there is a shortage...