Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shrewd, crude George Hudson, who married the boss's daughter, came into a ?30,000 legacy and swelled it, temporarily, into a railway fortune. In Hudson's heyday, he was able to play with $120 million of Britons' money.† "There he was," said a bitter rival, "crowing like a cock upon his own dunghill...
Facsimile had been a long time coming. Among others, Inventors John V. L. Hogan and William G. H. Finch, who have rival systems, have worked on it for 20 years. In the 1930s, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Columbus Dispatch and other dailies experimented with it, but reproduction was slow and the carbon-paper product didn't seem to have a future. The war interrupted research; in 1944, eight radio stations and 17 newspapers, linked as Broadcasters Faximile Analysis, matched $250,000 of Hogan's money to get it going again...
...rival college camps will clash in debate tonight when the United Nations Council battles the World Federalists over the pros and cons of the UN. Two members of each group will hold the discussion at eight o'clock in the Lowell House Junior Common Room...
Eight years ago, the Constitution muffed a chance to buy both the rival Journal and Hearst's Georgian and thus dominate the Atlanta area. Instead, James M. Cox grabbed them. By killing the Georgian and adding its circulation to the Journal's, Cox made it a bigger (circ.231,000)-and more aggressive-daily than the Constitution...
...million Mexican Ericsson Co. was owned by Sweden Ericsson Co. Wenner-Gren got it by swapping some of his Swedish securities. With Mexican Ericsson, he got its 49% ownership of the rival Mexicana Telephone & Telegraph Co. The other 51% of Mexicana is owned by International Telephone & Telegraph Co. (see above). For that, Wenner-Gren agreed to pay I.T. & T. some $11 million, raised by selling other Swedish holdings and using U.S. dollars earned by his stock in Servel, Inc. (refrigerators) and Electrolux Corp. (vacuum cleaners...