Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arms of his stage partner, "Your husband." Perhaps you are the kind who can overlook the bad and remember only the good; then, you will long enjoy such lines as the one by Mr. Howard kissing the lovely Olivia de Havilland, who at the same moment espies her rival Miss Davis looking on with great interest...
...night-club life, a notable presence of society life. From October to June a stream of debuts and assemblies, as the "Friday Evenings" at the Hotel Somerset, keeps the average Harvard man busy and gay. Harvard men monopolize Boston parties. Therefore they can see no reason to start rival parties of their own in Cambridge...
Sugar has been overwhelmed by more than a decade of overproduction. In 1926 Cuba tried a single-handed experiment in limitation, but as she cut her production, rival nations expanded theirs. Cuba then sponsored the plan of Manhattan Lawyer Thomas L. Chadbourne whereby all sugar-producing nations adopted export quotas. Put into effect in 1931, the Chadbourne plan failed to raise prices because its quotas were too high in the face of declining world sugar demand. In 1932 the average world price of sugar fell to .9? a lb., well below the cost of production. Since then it has never...
...longstanding war in Illinois between the rival miners' unions makes Labor's current internecine strike look like a taffy-pulling contest. The Progressives maintain that John Lewis imported 10,000 miners to crush the revolt. The Progressives themselves on one occasion massed 15,000 for a march on Franklin County. Pitched battles were fought with as many as 300 armed miners engaged. Hundreds were wounded in open conflict and no less than 21 Progressives were murdered. Trains were dynamited, a bridge burned, and bombings became as common as rain. The state of law enforcement in the Illinois coal...
...Nashville Banner has long been published each evening and Sunday. But lately it has been losing advertising to the Tennessean-in receivership for four years before Silliman Evans bought it last March-published each morning, evening and Sunday. To end a ruinous circulation and advertising fight between their rival papers, Mr. Evans, also chairman of Maryland Casualty Co., and Mr. Stahlman have formed Newspaper Printing Corp. which will solicit advertising, print and distribute both papers from a new $150,000 building. Each paper owns half the stock in the operating company, of which Mr. Stahlman is chairman, Mr. Evans president...