Word: stronge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playing in the Ithacan armory, the Crimson polo team upset a strong Cornell squad, 15 to 14, last Saturday night in an informal contest...
...first year Yant was going strong; he had raked in $242,000 and still had considerable acreage left. But the customers finally got restive. Con-Man Yant ended up doing two years at San Quentin...
...Greatest Threat. Chiang would try to fight on from Formosa, though the U.S. and British governments had written off the strategic island. Actually, Formosa (the size of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island combined, pop. 7,200,000) could be a strong redoubt; it is one of Asia's most prosperous areas, carefully developed by the Japanese in half a century of colonial rule. Its paddy fields can grow three rice crops a year. It has large sugar and tea plantations, banana groves,, camphor forests. Its Jap-built industry includes sugar mills, waterworks, hydroelectric stations, an aluminum plant...
...government: "The American economy is not ... strong enough at present to carry the . . . mounting tax load . . . The continuance of fiscal uncertainty and instability will . . . undermine the system of free enterprise, by killing the incentives to take the risks essential to a dynamic, expanding economy...
...Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. unveiled a new Scotch tape for industrial use. Made of acetate film, reinforced with glass filaments, it is strong enough to band and strap heavy machinery parts, plate glass, lumber and other heavy objects for shipping...