Word: prize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sniffing out numbers racketeers in Ford's sprawling Rouge plant, Dearborn's Police Chief Ralph Guy found himself on the scent of a $5,000,000-a-year gambling ring, employing over 600 Ford workers as writers, pickup men and runners. His prize catch: a plant committeeman of the C.I.O. United Auto Workers, who, Guy reported, offered him $50,000 a year to lay off. Said Guy: "We know of some workers who frequently gamble away their entire week's pay without ever leaving the foundry...
What were the Russians after? Facing an increasingly hostile German population, their position was not much more enviable than the West's. They were simply beating against the West's weakest salient to win either its surrender-or the even bigger prize of a new conference, with Ruhr coal on the table. What could the U.S. do about it? Washington's diplomatic counterattack-which must strive not merely for present Russian withdrawal but for guarantees against future assaults-could start with a formal protest to Moscow (which was being readied this week). The next possible steps...
...years ago the Ontario Northland Railway called on chefs of the province for a typical Ontario dish to set before tourists. First prize went to a thrifty meat pie (rabbit, chicken or beef). Saskatchewan ran the same kind of contest, finally gave the first prize to a doughy chicken turnover. In cattle-conscious Alberta a third competition ended up with an old standby: a king-sized steak...
...gazed steadily out over the throngs. Around the balcony hung other photographs: the Dewey family playing with their Great Dane; the Dewey family at the circus; Dewey on the farm. Dewey infantrymen passed out soft drinks and small favors to gawking visitors and gave every 200th visitor a door prize. William Horne, a Philadelphia bank employee, was clocked in as the 45,000th visitor and got a sterling silver carving...
...news of atomic medicine was none too good, either. The scientific exhibit that won first prize (a gold medal) illustrated a method that might help victims of radiation. J. Garrott Allen and six co-workers at the University of Chicago Medical School were able to stop hemorrhage in people suffering from acute leukemia. (Hemorrhage is one of the reasons people die from radiation.) They used two drugs which worked equally well: toluidine blue, a tissue stain, and protamine sulfate, a protein compound. The doctors used the drugs on dogs that had fatal doses of X rays, and prolonged the dogs...