Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same way, she visited other agencies and admen, getting the names of leading models. The leaders were then asked to drop in to TIME'S office for interviews with her and Joseph Purtell, Senior Editor for Business & Finance. Most of the models were puzzled by TIME'S interest, and rightly so -this was the first cover story on a model TIME has ever done. But when the pretty girls trooped through the editorial halls, they found that TIME'S interest was high. Said Purtell: "I never had so many writers offer to help on a story...
...American League, the New York Yankees felt more & more like the defenders of Thermopylae. After leading the league all season with the help of pitching, a lot of team courage and the wiles of Manager Casey Stengel, they were looking like warriors who were about to drop their blunted swords. They blew a seven-run lead to the inept Chicago White Sox to lose, 10-9, threw away another game to the cellar-dwelling Washington Senators, 9-8, when two Yankee infielders let an easy pop fly fall between them for a hit. This week, after losing two straight...
...ranks of the jobless dwindled by 333,000 in September in the second successive monthly drop in unemployment shown in the late-summer business upswing. The Census Bureau reported a decline to a total of 3,351,000 unemployed...
Although large, the number is a drop from peak graduate enrollment during the war years...
...enrollment drop is in line with Provost Buck's plans to reduce the College to 4,300 by 1951. This is the first year that Harvard's reducing program is working out, since the Dean's Office miscalculated the effects of the draft last year and ended up with 400 more students than it expected...