Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tendency of rival papers to combine went on unchecked: of the 39 that folded, ten disappeared by merger...
...Stevens meant $120,000 a year. But the average occupancy was still only 44%. So Binns spent $325.000 for repairs, new furnishings, etc. In 1940 the occupancy figure rose to 50%. Fortnight ago, bondholders heard they would get their 5%, or most of it, for the first time. Though rival managers discounted Binns's record by pointing to their own increased occupancy (and to the Stevens' shrunken capitalization), most Stevens bondholders agreed that Trainer Binns had done a good...
...these and 2,000,000 other compositions are the stock-in-trade of the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers. Instead broadcasters will offer selections from the 200,000 tunes corralled by Broadcast Music, Inc. since it was set up last year as a rival to ASCAP. Among those will be plenty of Latin-American ballads, many a song from the public domain (56 years is the copyright deadline), a handful of current favorites like Practice Makes Perfect, one of the very few hits uncovered to date...
...When Huguenine's One & Only International Circus comes to town, Chad joins it as roustabout. He takes a fancy to Albany Yates (Dorothy Lamour), the high rider, but marries Albany's understudy (Linda Darnell). He slugs it out in a free-for-all brawl with a rival circus, takes over the ringmaster's duties when Owner Huguenine falls ill, quarrels with his wife, leaves her, soon returns in contrition. That is about...
...crowns him national riding champion, often helps land a contract with a rich stable, a chance to ride in big-money stake races, where owners usually give jockeys 10% of their winnings. So last fortnight, when Jockey Dew, racing in California, realized that an idle week gave his Eastern rival a chance to overtake him, he hopped a plane, flew to Florida to fight it out with young Taylor at Tropical Park...