Word: vies
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Arthur Gartland, the only committeeman to support the charge ran fifth with 30,315 votes. Melvin H. King, a South End-social worker campaigning with strong NAACP support, finished seventh to become one of the ten candidates who will vie for committee seats in November...
Irma la Douce ought to have a deuce of a time as two road companies vie with the current film version: Juliet Prowse will play it at Devon, Pa.; Haddonfield, N.J.; West Springfield, Mass.; Gaithersburg, Md. Genevieve will play it at Wallingford, Conn.; Framingham, Mass.; Warwick, R.I.; Warren, Ohio; Columbus...
...Brash Intruder. Most cities around the world are delighted to have a Hilton, and scores vie for them. A Hilton is a boon to the tourist business, since many Americans (who make up about 50% of all Hilton's guests) will go more readily to a city where they can find a modern hotel with a reassuringly familiar name. Egypt's take from tourism increased $12 million a year after Hilton moved in; Turkey gained $2.5 million in foreign exchange. A Hilton usually forces other hotels in the area to improve their standards (their celebrated old-fashioned personal...
With Ogilvie easily stopping the varsity's few remaining scoring sorties, and Crimson stickmen sitting in the penalty box. Yale had little trouble extending its lead. Vie Ivanscheck and Roger Well added their own for New Haven and Harvard was down...
Often, companies seem to vie with one another in revealing as few facts as possible. They produce almost uniformly uninformative annual reports; the annual report of the Artois brewery, Belgium's biggest, consists of just six lines, which do not even tell what products the company handles. The huge Solvay chemicals trust refuses to give the exact number of its plants, and Munich's Löwenbräu holds back from publishing its annual output (24 million gal.). Others delay what figures they do publish: Switzerland's Frisia oil company has just got around to publishing...