Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...January (1935-39 average: 100), down only four points from the postwar peak last fall. Construction in February was 14% ahead of 1948. The steel industry scheduled its eighth straight week of overcapacity output, and the auto industry was heading for the best monthly production since war's end...
...woman, Mitchell eventually loses the ability to say "Get thee behind me, Satan." Shedding his wife, his honest friends and his self-respect as he wins the governorship, Lawyer Mitchell is on the point of delivering himself for shipment to hell, but his better nature triumphs in the end. The happy ending is scarcely a surprise, but Director John Farrow leads up to it with a series of small shocks, and neat twists. He appears to have the exhilarating conviction that man-meets-devil can be as interesting as boy-meets-girl. The fine sardonic dialogue of Jonathan Latimer...
Yacht Club men took advantage of rough seas yesterday afternoon to swamp the Marblehead Yacht Club, 172-153. The two clubs were tied at the end of four races, 110 all, but in the final two heals the Crimson's skill in high winds paid...
...Ambassador's Ball, Eliza waltzes with princes, chats with royalty, and convinces one of the Professor's colleagues that her accent is Hungarian. Afterwards, Eliza accuses Professor Higgins of using her merely for an experiment, and tries to go back to selling flowers in Covent Garden. But in the end, she discovers all in gutters is not gold, and Higgins finds himself no longer a bachelor...
...Elis won the first event, the 200-yard medley relay, but were disqualified because freestyler Bill Farnsworth took off before breaststroker Tom Merritt touched the end of the pool. This gave Harvard at 5 to 0 lead, but it proved to be short-lived...