Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four compulsory figures Miss Albright leads her nearest rival, European champion Hanna Eigel of Austria, by about 30 points. "Only a miracle could keep her from the crown," observers said...
...death of Stalin March, 1953, certain Western observers believed it was inevitable that Russia, the undisputed leader of world communism, and China, a potential rival of Russia for communist dominance, would split. These observers pointed to undeniable differences between the two countries, as well can persuade the majority of the House that he is correct, that is all right with me," he continued...
...Star's morning edition, the Times (circ. 336,824). The story: the trial of the Government's criminal antitrust suit against the Kansas City Star Co., which puts out both papers. The charge: the Star and its morning paper had killed off their chief rival, the Kansas City Journal-Post, and then used their monopoly position to force advertisers to do business on their terms, e.g., advertise only in the Star, the Times, and over their radio station WDAF...
...Government's charge that the Star Co. pushed the rival Journal-Post out of business in 1942, the Star had a strong argument. It was the Journal, said the Star's lawyers, that had been "operated solely to destroy the Star." The Journal had boasted in front-page editorials, said the defense, that it would put the Star out of business. The campaign, charged the Star, started after Multimillionaire Henry L. Doherty bought the Journal in 1931. Doherty, founder and big stockholder of the Cities Service Co., was outraged at the Star's fight against raising Kansas...
...collect art on a grand scale. He bought some 9,000 objects, built a Washington museum to house them, and willed the whole collection to the Government. In the 32 years since its opening, the Freer Gallery has delighted millions of visitors. Its Chinese painting collection has only one rival outside of China (Boston's Museum of Fine Arts), and includes hundreds of masterpieces on a plane with the Sung Dynasty ink drawing at left...