Word: nipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...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...
...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...
...yard medley relay, Brown was clocked in 3:03 to nip Army. The Crimson has done about the same, Ulen said...
...salt domes and along the shores of Texas, the cracking towers and silvery balls of synthetic rubber, plastics and fertilizer plants had created a new chemical empire. Profits had helped pay for expansion. An excess-profits tax would not only nip the expansion but, if the wartime formula was followed, would hit the most progressive companies hardest (Jersey Standard would pay more heavily than U.S. Steel). As Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders said: "You can say so much against it [an excess-profit tax] that I have difficulty in understanding what anybody...