Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Journal-Post had been a lukewarm observer of the gas-rate fight. Its editorials were innocuous, deprecatory. But there was sufficient natural feeling against the rival Star to cause a visible sympathy toward Doherty's side of the argument. Hence it was not embarrassingly inconsistent for the Journal-Post to become a Cities Service sounding-board...
...antics of Ray Dooley (Mrs. Eddie Dowling), at times in the nature of a Dowling soliloquy on the virtues of faith and of cherry pie. It relates the adventures of an enterprising youth who, discharged as croupier in the gambling rooms of a resort hotel, becomes manager of a rival boarding-place. Aided by the motherly proprietress, who makes succulent pastries; by her small granddaughter (Ray Dooley) who uses carpet sweepers as roller-skates and is continually scratching herself; and by an itinerant king who happens into the hotel and stays because he likes the pie, Dowling makes his venture...
...steer's head, throws it on its side, bites its lip and raises his hands in victory. For the first time in the show's history one cowboy, Fred Meyers of Okmulgee, Okla., won both the calf (20 8/10 sec.) and steer (24 1/10 sec.) roping contests. Rival of Cheyenne's Frontier Days is the Pendleton, Ore. Roundup, to be held this year Aug. 27-29. Queen of that rodeo will be brown-haired, blue-eyed Betty Bond, 18, junior at the University of Oregon...
...Although Corn Products Refining Co. was favored by the Government's decision that corn sugar may be used without labels, its half of $5,494,000 compared with $6,641,000. Its smaller rival (and recent legal conqueror) Penick & Ford showed a greater drop with $631,000 against...
...rival of Hickman Price in winter wheat acreage is James Jelinek who was waiting last week to harvest his 28,800-acre kingdom near Alliance, Neb. Mr. Jelinek uses 20 tractors, 14 combines, 12 trucks, 40 men. His harvest is 620,000 bu. He has his private elevator on the Burlington track...