Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...August, the House Commerce Committee shelved a measure to extend Federal funds to medical, dental, and nursing schools, after the bill had passed the Senate. Representative Percy Priest (D., Tenn.), a member of the committee, said that unless Congress took "emergency action," many medical schools would face financial ruin...
...August, the House Commerce Committee shelved a measure to extend Federal funds to medical, dental, and nursing schools, after the bill had passed the Senate. Representative Percy Priest (D., Tenn.), a member of the committee, said that unless Congress took "emergency action," many medical schools would face financial ruin...
...After delays due to a broken bridge and enemy ambushes, a U.S. armored rescue force arrived, led by Brigadier General J. Sladen Bradley, a tough fighter who rides into battle in his undershirt. But when Bradley got there, the Reds were in the town of Pohang, a burning ruin. Southeast of the town, ground crews, clerks and cooks were still defending the airstrip against the enemy. This week the Air Force evacuated its planes. The loss of the field-perhaps only temporary-was a serious blow to U.S. airpower in Korea...
...living-room rug, he clamped a Stradivarius under his chin, launched into a Mozart quartet with three members of the famed Paganini Quartet. Grinned little First Violinist Henry Temianka: "He didn't get lost once." Said Second Fiddler Knight: "I only play with good musicians. Two punks would ruin the music...
...called the "Milkman of the Mediterranean." His business deals were legendary: when a Danish line tried to steal his customers by offering below-cost freight rates on flour, Gehan dug up so many flour orders for his rival that the Dane had to raise his rates to avoid ruin. Gehan wangled so much tobacco trade that the line cornered some 80% of all the Turkish-type tobacco freight to the U.S. Slater sold off slower ships, bought faster ones, by 1939 was showing a profit without help of a U.S. subsidy. Two years later, shipments to the European war bulged...