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...Nip & Tuck. This time it was the Dewey leaders who were trying to fight somebody with nobody: Committeeman Axel J. Beck of Elk Point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Change of Command | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...nip & tuck all the way. With all 48 states accounted for, Gabrielson and Beck were locked solid 45 votes to 45. Alaska's one vote put Beck ahead. Then Gabrielson went into the lead with two votes each from the District of Columbia, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Before the final vote was announced, one Nebraska committeeman switched his vote to give Gabrielson a bare majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Change of Command | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...making jars for industrial canners. She walks around her plants in sensible shoes, and shuttles between factories by plane. Last year her company turned out more than 100 million jars, not far behind Muncie's Ball Brothers Co., the biggest U.S. canning-jar maker. Last week, in a nip & tuck battle with Ball for the No. 1 spot, Mrs. Kerr launched her biggest advertising campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Lord Helps Those . . . | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...this stir was the result of a wideawake promotion by the onetime sleepy cotton industry. In plugging these apparently unimportant items it had a highly important purpose. It hoped to win a nip & tuck race with papermakers for what has usually been one of the biggest markets for U.S. cotton textiles (bags absorbed about 8% of all cotton textile production before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COTTON: A Double Life | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...yard medley relay, Brown was clocked in 3:03 to nip Army. The Crimson has done about the same, Ulen said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Meet Undefeated Brown Team at Providence | 1/12/1949 | See Source »

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