Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...figure is a little generous. At last count, 585,936 Texans had served the nation in World War II. Texas' population: not quite...
Over four crowded wires from the Sen ate Office Building, Western Union punched 25,000 words a day; the press as sociations (A.P., U.P., I.N.S.) filed six to eight thousand apiece. How many words poured into the radio microphones, no body stopped to count. Pearl Harbor was the biggest running congressional story since the 1933 Pecora banking investiga tion...
Died. Helen Manice Alexander, 74, blueblooded benefactress of needy musicians, Manhattan clean-up campaigner extraordinary; after a fall; in Baltimore. She introduced an improved chewing-gum scraper for street cleaners (by her 1938 count, there were 1,250,000 wads stuck to Broadway between 42nd and soth), once ran a sidewalk-scrubbing contest in Times Square...
...good bet that Southworth would soon corral, at a fancy price, some of the players who had hustled for him in St. Louis. It was equally likely that he would go on working wonders like his 1945 Card trick with Pitcher Charlie Barrett. Barrett, a no-count Brave tossed into the $50,000 deal for Mort Cooper, won 21 games for St. Louis under Southworth's persuasive handling...
...Crimson Jayvee eleven, after blasting out an early lead over the Massachusetts Maritime Academy here Saturday, finally succumbed on the short end of a 13 to 9 count. Freshman E. N. Foynes scored the only Crimson touchdown on an end run in the first period, but Coach Al Kevorkian's outfit was unable to hold the mariners. After a sailor score in the second quarter, the home team struck back with a safety early in the second half, but a last-period tally sewed up the contest for the visitors...