Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which Bowler Mensenberg is unlikely to receive any but his medal. Most Congressmen bring their own bowling balls, of lignum vitae or composition rubber, in specially tailored leather cases. Since it is easy to cheat by putting lead in the finger-holes, each ball is carefully weighed before its owner uses it to make sure it conforms to the 16-lb. standard...
...despite the paralyzed hand that the War gave him. Jean, the second, is a cinema director, lately produced a well reviewed film of Madame Bovary. Blond Claude, familiar to all art students in dozens of child portraits, is the plump & prosperous owner of the largest cinema in Antibes, L'Antipolis...
...Madison Square Garden rodeo. He is a desk cowboy with wild eyeballs who in the picture's most hilarious sequence steals the year's outstanding race horse, Gallant Godfrey. Things go on like this until the climax at the race track. Gallant Godfrey, returned to his owner, runs against Toledo's horse and makes everybody happy by losing...
...anxious as the Conference was to have him there. Meeting behind closed doors in their swank offices, the grave-faced members had good cause for anxiety. In three short years this handsome, affable German Jew had grown from a minor competitor to a major menace. As the principal owner of Arnold Bernstein Line, biggest of the transatlantic independents, he had more than held his own against an international shipping combine by the simple method of selling transportation cheaper than anyone else. Hugely successful at 45, he had bought Red Star Line lock, stock & barrel from International Mercantile Marine...
...Owner Bernstein was soon to receive a rude jolt. The North Atlantic Freight Conference, meeting in Manhattan, refused him membership on the ground that he had violated an agreement by buying Red Star Line and thus entering the general cargo field. With threats of a freight rate war on the horizon, bewildered Arnold Bernstein cabled a protest to the U. S. Shipping Board Bureau, felt sure the new "misunderstanding" would be straightened out, planned to travel to the U. S. next month...