Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months ago, letters began appearing under George's door at night. The first said: "You will pay 100 gold pounds to the Democratic [Communist] Army." George threw the letter in the fireplace. Soon the second arrived. "If you don't pay you'll have a difficult time." When that was ignored, a third threatened: "If not paid immediately we will have your head -you'll be slaughtered in the marketplace like a steer...
...dollars each week than ever before. Nearly all business indexes were hovering around their high marks. But the curves on the wall charts in executive and sales offices were flattening out. And if allowances were made for the decreased buying power of the dollar (9.3% less than a year ago), many lines of business showed a drop in the actual volume of goods handled...
Shoppers were looking for bargains, whereas a year ago many did not even bother to ask the price. Tips were smaller and waitresses were being polite to customers again. Just as in the U.S., the bottom had dropped out of the "used (new) car" market...
...everyone finds this production flood a cause for cheering. Three months ago, the Federal Communications Commission called a halt to new transmitter construction (TIME, Oct. 11), partly from the conviction that the industry should get along for a while without new stations and take a breathing spell...
...Gerald Krueger, in charge of the Illinois cyclotron, noticed just a month ago that he had cataracts in both eyes. His vision is blurred, but he is still able to hunt (last week he shot two rabbits). Dr. Gerhart Groetzinger, 40, now of the University of Chicago, worked on the Illinois cyclotron during the war; he noticed a cataract's dimming effects in his right eye two years ago. It seems to be clearing, and he hopes it will go away without an operation. The fifth victim is a nuclear physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...