Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Canadian political campaigns traditionally generate a gentlemanly head of steam toward election time, as the rival candidates slug it out for votes in the nation's populous heartland of Ontario and Quebec, where 160 of Parliament's 265 seats will be decided. Last week a Canadian Institute of Public Opinion poll reported that, of voters expressing a preference, 47% were pro-Liberal, 30% pro-Conservative. But the Liberals apparently have lost ground in Ontario, and some Tories, recalling last year's U.S. elections, professed to sense a "time-for-a-change" ground swell in their favor...
...this giant rival to business get so big? Many of the activities, such as atomic energy and synthetic rubber, were vital to national security, and only the Government was big enough to finance them. But the Government also still operates many a business that has no such reason for existence. President Andrew Jackson began Boston's 119-year-old Navy Rope Walk so that the Navy would not be dependent upon Russian hemp. U.S. ropemakers can now supply all the Navy's needs, but the Boston Rope Walk goes merrily on, with that hardy indestructibility peculiar to Government...
PROCTER & Gamble, which has far outdistanced rival Colgate-Palm-olive-Peet in both soap and detergent sales, is now getting ready to challenge Colgate in its specialty: toothpaste. Already on sale in nine states, P. & G.'s new "Gleem" dentifrice will get national distribution next year...
...Joffroy believes that the honored young woman died about 2,500 years ago, while the Greeks were fighting their Persian wars and when Rome was still a struggling young republic. The lady's people were Celts of the late Hallstatt (first iron) Age. In culture they did not rival the Greeks, but they certainly were not the dark primitives that Greek historians maligned...
...even at its most fantastic, contrives to keep its brisk sense of humor and its matter-of-fact, child's-eye view. The villains employed by Dr. T. are a carefree mixture of pirates, heavies out of The Arabian Nights, dabblers in atomic science, and cheerleaders for a rival junior high football team (one of the best of the picture's ten songs is a close-harmony, walls-of-poison-ivy number, softly sung by a group of "us stinkers"-Dr. T.'s plug-ugly hirelings...