Word: paule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Typical shark was squat, hoarse-voiced Max Chester (convictions for extortion, bookmaking, robbery), who walked into the offices of a Brooklyn plumbing supply manufacturer, Paul Claude, one day in 1954. Announced Max Chester: "I am going to unionize your shop." Testified fearful Paul Claude last week: "He wanted $2,000 to give me a contract that I can live with. I said, 'I haven't got $2,000.' He figured out with pencil and paper that a contract I couldn't live with would cost me $12,000. I could save myself...
...produced two surprisingly professional field goals of 12 and 25 yds., the boys' passing attack never again threatened the men's defense. While the Giants' backfield deployed far to the rear to bat down long passes, beefy Giant linesmen crashed through to rush Quarterbacks Brodie and Paul Hornung. In marked difference between pro experience and college eagerness, the college quarterbacks tried to run and were smeared, while the Giants' Charley Conerly refused to budge when rushed, coolly ate the ball and waited for the next play...
...Francisco Forty-Niners, made the most of a Giant fumble with the slippery ball, swiftly passed his collegians 55 yds. toward the pros' goal, sent Illinois' Abe Woodson scampering downfield and shot Wake Forest Fullback Billy Ray Barnes across to score. But when Notre Dame's Paul Hornung (Green Bay Packers) missed the extra point, the All-Stars had to settle for a 6-0 lead. The Giants settled for something more: crack performances by two of their oldest, saltiest veterans. Ben Agajanian, 38, Giant kicking master for seven years, stepped delicately onto the muddy field...
MUTUAL BROADCASTING, in the past a money-losing system, is being taken over from RKO Teleradio Pictures, Inc., a General Tire & Rubber Co. subsidiary, by a syndicate headed by Oilman Armand Hammer, who will become chairman, and Los Angeles Radio Executive Paul Roberts, who will become president. Group paid about $750,000 for network's good will and advertising contracts with 480 U.S., Canadian stations...
Today the factories of Essen-and dozens of other Krupp plants throughout Germany-are glowing with activity. Amid the magnificent trappings of the Villa Hügel, his 200-room ancestral mansion above the valley of the Ruhr, Alfried Krupp regally receives visiting heads of state such as King Paul of Greece, Brazil's President Kubitschek, Cabinet ministers and businessmen, extends his hospitality to men who once vowed to destroy him. In a gesture that symbolizes the rehabilitation of the Krupp empire and name, the U.S., which has long refused to admit convicted war criminals, last fortnight granted Alfried...