Word: 79th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Giannini had retired officially at least three times. But he had too much energy to sit still; unofficially he went right on working so hard at his Bank of America that friends knew there was only one way he would really retire. A month ago, as he passed his 79th birthday, A.P. confided to a reporter that it would be his last. A.P., who had been right so many times before, was right this time...
Thousands of Hindus marched through the streets dragging hideous effigies labeled DEMON LIQUOR. At strategic corners, city officials stepped forward to set fire to the images. Last week Madras Province was celebrating Gandhi's birthday (it would have been his 79th) by going...
...Baldwin-Wallace College's high hurdling Harrison Dillard won a 110-meter exhibition, his 79th victory...
...Otis' original safety catch has been succeeded by scores of automatic speed and leveling controls. Until 1945, Otis boasted that not one of its passenger elevators had ever fallen because of broken cables. That year an Army bomber, bursting through the Empire State Building between the 78th and 79th floors, severed the cables and all the safety devices on one Otis elevator, which plummeted to the subbasement. Even so, the operator (who was alone) got out alive...
...against which they have no specific grievance). It set up machinery for voluntary mediation and required 60-day cooling-off periods in industrial disputes. To labor leaders, its penalties (possible loss of job) seemed severe. The bill, by & large, was another version of the Case bill, passed by the 79th Congress, vetoed by President Harry Truman...