Word: west
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...haggling over prices. Chiang Kai-shek sent a personal appeal to President Truman to hurry things up. But not until last week did the Chinese finally get some definite answers. Forty percent of the top priority items on their shopping lists, they were told, would be shipped from West Coast ports in early December; 60% would be ready to ship in January...
After the opening game against Stanford on the West Coast, the team will play the same schools it played in 1948, and in the same order. Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Army, Dartmouth, Holy Cross, Princeton, Brown, and Yale constitute the line-up released yesterday by H.A.A. director William J. Bingham '16. Stanford will play in Cambridge...
...Mexico, former Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson has only a narrow estimated lead over Republican candidate Patrick Hurley. Elsewhere in the West, Democratic Senators Ed Johnson and James Murray are having tough battles in Colorado and Montana against polished and wellheeled opponents...
...West Point, the brass-buttoned chests had not been so puffed up and proud since the great Davis & Blanchard graduated. Army's football team, unbeaten in its first four games, was rated among the "big four" of the nation (the others: North Carolina, Notre Dame and Michigan). What's more, it was waist deep in sophomores who are good now and almost certain to get much better...
...Shelf. Appliance sellers, among the hardest hit by the Government's credit curbs, complained that refrigerators were backing up on them; radio stores were only saved by the boom in television sets. A West Coast furrier, on a scouting trip to New York, discovered that his fellow furriers were keeping their stockrooms bare, rushed home and cut his prices 15-20%. Shoe manufacturers, some of whom had already cut production, were also talking of post-Christmas price cuts as high as $1 a pair. Many another manufacturer who last year had to stall off customers was now ready...