Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today at 68, Yardley still plays tight, winning poker. He is so tough a competitor that even before he published his book, friends at the National Press Club in Washington would desert his table and jump to another game the minute they saw a chance. Now that his warning to suckers is in circulation, he is finding it hard to get anybody to take a hand in a friendly little game...
...saw a baby female platypus puddling in the mud on the bank of the Albert River. The platypus saw Fleay and disappeared into a crevice, but a trap caught her during the night, and Fleay named her Pamela. Three days later he caught a male baby, Paul. Both Pamela and Paul took their captivity with resignation, but Paddy, another male, captured on Feb. 10, protested in a way that worried Fleay, who feared that Paddy might never see The Bronx...
...Pittsburgh Plate Glass, which comprise 95% of the plate-glass industry, got tired of seeing their wage scales leapfrog because of individual bargaining, feel that they have done much better since they decided to bargain together after a strike in 1936. Said a Pittsburgh Plate Glass executive: "We saw it as a means of protecting ourselves against the union's whipsawing tactics...
...Malt when it took over the old Pabst Corp. in 1932 in anticipation of Prohibition's demise. He became president of the new Premier-Pabst Corp., and Fred Pabst, son of the founder, later became chairman. Perlstein led the company through its period of greatest growth and profitmaking, saw it reach its biggest year in 1949 with a sales peak of $168,994,000. But Perlstein soon found himself hurt by his own success. Hit hard by the steadily flattening beer market, Pabst sales slid steadily. To make matters worse, Perlstein drew the wrath of the Pabst family...
...Merger? After his victory, Perlstein announced that he will take up again a major project interrupted by the proxy fight: merger talks with the Pepsi-Cola Co. Perlstein started the merger talks while the proxy fight was brewing, but Pepsi President Alfred Steele broke off the talks when he saw that the fight was inevitable. Steele, who took over Pepsi when it was floundering and sent sales and profits soaring, apparently felt he could do the same for Pabst; Pabst also stood to gain by Pepsi's crack management and salesmanship...