Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wily lefthander Bill Snow will probably go to the hill. If Snow has to leave, the visitors may get an-another look at Everett Dorr, and the prospects shouldn't frighten them too much. Three weeks ago on Soldiers Field, Dorr succumbed to the wind and cold weather, walking four men in the last of the ninth to hand the Crimson a close 7-6 victory...
...Security Council was set up over a month ago in the University. It is headed by Stuart P. Greene...
...down to $33,957,341 v. $39,234,511 last year.) Republic Steel Corp., third biggest steelmaker, was studying prices, had not yet acted. In all, the nation's steel bill had been cut about $80 million a year, not quite what it had been boosted two months ago (TIME, March...
Thus in London's Sunday Express last week, Columnist Nat Gubbins good-naturedly warned U.S. tourists in Britain. But U.S. trippers did not scare easily. Two months ago political worries had led some to cancel trips to Europe, but the defeat of Italy's Communists had queued them up in longer lines than ever. Last week, for the first time since last fall, the Queen Elizabeth left New York City packed to the rails. This summer some 100,000 U.S. tourists will visit the United Kingdom and Eire; twice as many hope to go to the Continent...
Airline folk thought there was more to it than that. For one thing, T.W.A. was not yet flying smoothly. Due chiefly to Cohu's payroll slashing, its $8,000,000 loss in 1947 was only a little more than half the loss of 1946. But only three weeks ago, T.W.A. notified the Civil Aeronautics Board that it was so short of cash that it would be "unable to continue even a semblance of its present service" unless it got a $3.000,000 boost in foreign mail rates-and got it right now. Moreover, only two weeks ago Cohu...