Word: staked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government had not once officially demanded an increase in the allowable production set for the state's oilmen. The requests had come from Humble Refining Co., a Jersey Standard subsidiary, and from Magnolia Oil Co., a Socony subsidiary, both of them major Texas refiners with an economic stake in higher tidewater production...
Oddly enough, neither Farmer nor Labor Candidate Niall MacDermot (a Cambridge-educated barrister) had a thing to say about Suez. The issue at stake was far closer to the British home and pocketbook: rent control. Last week, despite some timid objections from the back benches, the Macmillan government was going all out to put through its bill relaxing the controls which have frozen some 6,000,000 British rents at close to prewar levels ever since 1939 (only 6½% of income now goes for rent, as opposed to 11% prewar). The bill would raise the rent ceilings on some...
...quick 21). At the end of the second round, either contestant can stop the game if he thinks he is ahead. The winner gets $500 a point for the difference between his score and the loser's-paid out of the loser's stake, if any. In case the opponents tie at 21, each game necessary for the play-off is played for an additional $500 a point...
...attempts to raise funds have centered largely around interested corporations and foundations which have a stake in the development of Harvard's project. "We have been trying to avoid canvassing alumni in our drive," Katz said, "because we don't want to disturb the regular Alumni Fund procedure...
...could save $16,000 by getting married this year, and a girl wrote: "I would like to meet you. I am 20, and my bust is 37.") Charlie Van Doren was painfully torn between going on again this week at the risk of losing some of his big stake to a new opponent, or getting out now that he has enough to finance a "snazzy sports car" and several free summers in which to finish a thesis on Poet William Cowper and write a novel. "Something about it gets you," he said...