Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department, which had already labeled the conference as a Communist sounding board, issued a 36-page white paper reciting the Soviet government's repeated refusal of U.S. offers to exchange scholars or information. As the seven-man Russian delegation arrived, Hearst's Daily Mirror roared: "Throw the bums out. We don't want them . . . We intend to insult them-if it is possible...
...seven other Pacific bases which the Navy had asked to retain at war's end, only Guam-Saipan was still active, and Guam's personnel had been halved. Adak, Leyte, Manus and Iwo had been abandoned or left in housekeeping status: Kodiak had become a minor base. Pacific fleet strength had also been sharply cut back. Three carriers and six cruisers were headed for mothballs, leaving only a handful of combat ships to guard the supply lines to the occupation forces in Japan...
...months seven U.S. oil companies have folded their rigs and suspended drilling in Colombia. Last week Shell, having sunk $90 million trying to get profitably established, announced that it was forced to curtail operations. That left only two small outfits drilling for new fields in Colombia. Three big U.S. companies (Socony-Vacuum, Texaco and Jersey Standard's Tropical) have put too much money into old, producing fields to pull out now; but they have virtually given up trying to find new oil for the present...
...year between Dartmouth and Yale. The Indians, in annexing the Sidney E. Hutchinson Cup (symbolic of Ivy League supremacy) last spring, took their fourth loop title since 1930. The Indians triumphed in 1930, 1935, 1938, and also in 1939 when the circuit operated on an informal basis. They won seven out of eight games last season, bowing only to Yale, which has also copped four Ivy League championships. Thus, both Dartmouth and the Elis will be out to break the 4-4 tie in League crowns...
...Tech team included seven members of the Harvard B squad. In the scrums, the winners were weak on hooking but their backs, particularly scrum halfback Colin McIntyre and Joe Eaton, were impressive...