Word: par
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Airways last week made good on a promise. It slashed the New York-London fare from $572, one way, to $275, dropped the roundtrip fare to $495. Thus it became the first airline to set fares on a par with first-class steamer rates...
Biggest contributor is the world's biggest calendar company-Brown & Bigelow of St. Paul, Minn, (it sells more than all the rest together). B & B climbed to the top partly by cornering the nation's top commercial artists (Rolf Armstrong, Earl Moran, Norman Rockwell, Maxfield Par-rish), chiefly because of its ruddy-faced, peach-bald president, Charles Allen Ward, 58. Before he joined B & B, he had tried almost as many jobs as it had calendars...
...most logical of nations suddenly found itself face to face with the most fundamental of issues in Europe's tortu ous revival: are national Communist Par ties truly national, or are they Russian pawns in world power politics? If they were Russian pawns, how could the French Communist Party be fitted into the pattern of French democracy...
...omens were propitious. First, the influential Kuomintang newspaper Ta Kung Pao reported that agreement had been reached on two fundamental points: 1) the Kuomintang and Communist Par ties would cooperate on an equal footing in the reconstruction of China under Chiang's leadership; 2) all political and non-political groups would confer on participation in the Central Government...
...South, Alabama's blond thread-needle passer, 180-lb. Harry Gilmer, star of last year's Sugar Bowl game, put 'Bama on a pre-season par with powerhoused Georgia Tech and Duke-which last week flattened South Carolina...