Word: 42nd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Close Calculation. Each of the 25 skippers in the 42nd annual predicted-log powerboat race up the length of Long Island Sound (see chart) had spent long hours computing his course; he had counted down to the last second just how long it would take him to pass each control point along the way. He had, if his calculations were correct, accounted for the effect of wind and tide; he had gone over his figures for the umpteenth time. Then he had filed his predictions with the race authorities...
...last testament his name ranked sixth.* In pursuance of the dead Fuhrer's wishes, Schorner went on fighting, ruthlessly killing hundreds of his own men who resisted the futile slaughter. He finally deserted his outfit disguised as a Tyrolean peasant, gave himself up to the U.S. 42nd Infantry Division. The Americans turned him over to the Russians, who, it was assumed, hanged...
Another bitterly contested battle has been the strike of A.F.L. Teamsters and other unions against Pittsburgh department stores (TIME, April 12). Now in its 42nd week, the strike shows no sign of ending. The chief issue is the question whether teamsters should have assistants on their delivery trucks. As a result of the fight, the stores have lost about 30% of their sales...
...early 1900s? Of the 100 largest industrial corporations in 1909, only 36 appeared on a similar list drawn up for 1948. U.S. Steel dropped from first place to third; Standard Oil (later Jersey Standard) moved up from second to first. Most swings were much wider. Sears, Roebuck rose from 42nd to 13th, Western Electric from 51st to 14th and Texas Co. from 87th to sixth, while Pullman Co. dropped from eighth to 81st, Singer Manufacturing from 13th to 79th and Pittsburgh Coal (now Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal) from 15th to 94th. Five companies among the first ten on the 1948 list...
...Ellen Stevenson's request for a food & liquor license was turned down. She appealed, and when her lawyer, Sydney Wolfe, appeared last week at the city's Zoning Board of Appeals, the Bellevue Place neighbors, the executive director of the Greater North Michigan Avenue Association and the 42nd Ward's alderman brought the hearings to a grumbling halt. Most truculent was Mrs. Martha Woodard, 75, operator of four Bellevue Place boardinghouses. She shouted at a reporter, "I don't think we need a bar there. The street'll be crawling with the artistic temperament, with...