Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...molasses-smooth manner, Odie Seagraves earned a reputation as "the man who can borrow more money on less collateral than any man in Texas." Along the way, he made-and invariably lost-staggering fortunes, yet always found the backers for still another deal. "Odie," says an awed and envious rival, "can make a hundred enemies and kiss them all good-bye-and go out and make a hundred friends and get a hundred million...
...over from an editor (John Revelstoke Rathom) who followed the "raise hell and sell newspapers" tradition, raised the Journal-Bulletin's moral sights instead, still sold a lot of papers (1956 combined circulation: 201,789). A journalistic puritan under whose guidance the Providence Journal Co. once kept a rival paper afloat for several months to avoid the evils of monopoly, Sevellon Brown regularly hired bright young men with graduate degrees (and paid so little that many quit after a short hitch), spent much of his time trying to raise the nation's standards of newspapering. Publisher Brown...
...Eagles had nothing left. The Crimson turned defense-minded but still dominated play to the extent of keeping it almost completely out of its own zone. Several times the crowd accorded enthusiastic applause to the varsity for each new turn in this defeat of its bitter cross-town rival...
...tight control over government spending. Insisting that he was not opposed to U.S. policy in general but only to U.S. Army economic decrees, Ishibashi nevertheless promised to observe the embargo on shipments of strategic goods to Red China. He then offered the Foreign Ministry to his chief Liberal-Democratic rival for the premiership, conservative Nobusuke Kishi, 60, onetime economic czar of Manchuria, one of whose electoral handicaps was the fact that he was a member of the Tojo Cabinet at the time of Pearl Harbor...
...another argument for merging: creation of another giant steel company with a capacity of 25.8 million tons (13.4 million tons less than U.S. Steel) and assets of $2.6 billion ($1 billion below U.S. Steel) could actually increase steel-industry competition. For the first time there would be a real rival for U.S. Steel, the undisputed monolith (first in capacity in ten of twelve major steel-producing categories) whose wage and price decisions have hitherto set the industry pattern...