Word: prize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Lieut. General Robert Eichelberger, who commanded the Eighth Army in Japan, picked up the prediction where Marshall left off. Said he, in a Chicago'speech: "One can appreciate what a great prize Japan would be to the Communist nations . . . To the U.S., Canada, the Philippines and Australia it would signify the loss of World War II and a potential defeat in the Pacific in any future war that might be forced upon...
...record in this field led to his winning the Collier's award as the outstanding member of Congress in 1947, a prize based on a pool of Washington correspondents...
...business student wrote Allen last Monday, taking him up on an offer to reimburse listeners who had missed a chance to win a radio quiz prize because of being tuned to his show. Russell declared that he might have won the new car from a WHBS quiz program if he hadn't been listening to Allen at the time...
...director of the radio show Stop the Music asked the Boeing Airplane Co. to donate a four-engined Stratocruiser as a prize in the "mystery melody jackpot," saying the publicity would be worth $75,000 to Boeing. The company refused, gently pointing out that the double-deck, 80-passenger aircraft needed a crew of five, sold for approximately...
Compared to the largesse that soda-pop barons, pearl merchants and encyclopedia publishers scatter for works of art, the prizes from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute are penny ante stuff. First prize at the Carnegie amounts to only $1,500, but it is still the most honorable award of the season...