Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week Hall & Co. had to face the very definite prospect that the President, even if he makes a quick recovery, will not run. The possibility threw the Republican Party into deep dismay; the reality conceivably could cause an intraparty Donnybrook to rival any nomination struggle in G.O.P. history. If he was receding from the political picture, President Eisenhower probably could not pick the nominee, but he could have important influence on his party's choice...
...goons and racketeers. The commission had barred from the docks 670 hoodlums with criminal records, abolished the daily "shape-up" (at which I.L.A.-blessed bosses doled out jobs) and opened its own hiring halls for the port's 31,900 longshoremen. The I.L.A., which beat out an A.F.L. rival to win a union-shop contract last year, set out this summer to stop the commission's slow cleanup...
Fast & Cheap. The Edgelea school is a new thing in schools: a prefabricated job built to rival the conventional school building. It was put up as a pilot model by National Homes Corp., the nation's largest builder of prefabricated homes, in only 21 working days after its foundation was poured. Cost per classroom: $18,500. Conventional school buildings take from twelve to 18 months to construct, cost an average of $37,000 a classroom...
...Palmolive. The News had a long way to go to challenge its prosperous but stodgy rival, the Observer (circ. 137,693). Robinson and his editors pepped up the paper's reporting and writing, cleaned up its typography, expanded the sports section, ran more pictures. On the editorial page, Robinson jumped into fights with both feet, soon made a reputation throughout the South as a strong voice. Despite local drys, the News fought for legalized liquor and thus helped run 400 bootleggers out of business the News ripped the hide off Race-Baiter Bryant Bowles when he spoke in Charlotte...
...Rival Among Ruins. Chief opposition comes from the Democratic Party, whose symbol is a trumpeting elephant, and whose nominal chief is Sihanouk's cousin, His Highness Prince Phorissara. Deep in the jungle, however, somewhere near the ruins of ancient Angkor Wat, hides the Democrats' moving spirit, an old enemy of the ex-King. Son Ngoc Thanh was Japan's puppet Premier of Cambodia in World War II, when ex-King Sihanouk was only in his early twenties. Since then, besides being pro-Japanese, Thanh has been pro-French, anti-French, pro-American, anti-American, pro-King...