Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Party Maverick. The predictions were dead right. Diefenbaker rolled up 777 votes on the first round. His closest rival, French-speaking Donald Fleming, 51, of Toronto, who attracted a heavy Quebec vote, polled 393; 40-year-old Davie Fulton of Vancouver...
...Neighborly Way. But when C.M. & M. was ready to sell to Natural Gas Pipeline and asked FPC approval, they ran into trouble. Rival Lone Star Gas fought the case before FPC for so long that C.M. & M. was faced with the expiration of its land leases upon which drilling had not started, thus might not have big enough gas potential to satisfy FPC that the yield could supply gas for a long enough period. C.M. & M.'s answer was to throw a $5,000 chicken barbecue last summer for Wise County landowners, and explain in neighborly fashion...
...glass-container maker, and Robert Gair Co., the No. 2 paper-container maker. Largely as a result of the mergers, Continental Can sales jumped from $666 million in 1955 to more than an estimated $1 billion in 1956, and the company passed its traditional rival, American Can Co., to become the No. 1 U.S. container maker...
...censorship clause in the Club's constitution was completely removed shortly after World War II, at about the time when the Club was at the lowest ebb in its history. The decade of university apathy set had started the early '40's, and with the founding of a rival veterans' theater group--which later became the Harvard Theater Group--after the war, the Dramatic Club found itself unable to recover until the rival organization closed down in 1953 and turned its resources over to the HDC. Neil Smith, a former member of the Theater Group, became the president...
Bright Shuttle. Sun displayed a rare (but spotty) propensity for leavening facts with fun, and pre-empting the hour ordinarily filled by Studio One, it edged rival NBC's popular drama show, Robert Montgomery Presents, in the ratings...