Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could get the MOP, he would have a line west to Denver-and through MOP's half-control of the Denver & Rio Grande Western, all the way to Salt Lake City. From Salt Lake City to San Francisco runs the Western Pacific, the small but spunky rival of the Southern Pacific (which owns the other half of D. & R. G. W.); Arthur Curtiss James's onetime road might possibly be had. In the East Young might take over the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western to get from Buffalo to Jersey City...
...play together. Ham-fisted Manager Charlie ("The Banjo") Grimm looks like a man having fun. Standing in his third-base coaching box, he cups his big paws and joyously bellows out the count after each pitch. He wiggles and waddles back & forth, lets out an occasional piercing whistle, mimics rival pitchers...
...York's minority-conscious Post, belatedly learning of Hopkins' views, skimped space from the war to bannerline on Page 1: "DARTMOUTH BARS JEWS 'TO END ANTI-SEMITISM,' SAYS PREXY." Next day PM, the Post's rival tabloid, took it up, running Hopkins' picture side by side with Nazi Jew-baiter Alfred Rosenberg. PM accused President Hopkins of "spouting the Hitler-Rosenberg line," or at best-talking "well-meaning but witless" nonsense...
...rival. Revealed in action (in the Philippines) for the first time was the four-engined B32, Consolidated Vultee's bid for V.L.R. (Very Long Range) recognition. Under wraps in the Pacific since May, the B-32 is a little smaller than the Superfortress but is a competitor in speed, range and bomb load. The new bomber is also simpler: on the off-chance that the B-29's pressurized cabin and elaborate fire-control system might not work, the Air Forces deliberately instructed the B-32 designers to omit extras, come up with a bomber stripped to absolute...
...other networks, ABC instead plans to give listeners a full quota of news, sports events and music; it will also feature special events and public service programs. Already in the works is a special V-J day setup that Versluis boasts will "beat the brains" out of his rival networks...