Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warned, Britain's dollars and expendable gold reserve will be exhausted by midsummer. Then Britain will "be driven back upon a policy of immediate self-preservation." Cripps meant that, without further U.S. aid, Britain would have to cut off U.S. food, raw material and machinery imports, fall back on barter pacts with other countries...
Actress Buff Cobb, 21, granddaughter of the late Humorist Irvin S. Cobb, sued her second husband for divorce after seven months of marriage. She said that the husband, Actor William Eythe, had hit her a couple of times last fall. Two days later, in a seesawing mood, she called the whole thing...
Publisher Jeremiah Ingersoll* had been searching for a new formula since he took over Salute in mid-1946. Last fall Ingersoll hired Vernon Pope, onetime editor of Look, and Editor Morris Weeks Jr., once of Pageant, to put some snap into Salute...
...chosen for this huge medical job is a top expert in mass medicine : Major General Paul Ramsey Hawley, who resigned last fall as medical director of the Veterans Administration after doing a "miracle" job of reorganization (TIME, Oct. 13). Dr. Hawley, a stocky 56, described his new job as that of "catalytic agent." One example of what he will have to tackle: coordinating 139 plans so that a national corporation can give its employees both hospital and doctor insurance in one "package." Another: working out a national average charge while keeping enough flexibility in local plans to meet varying conditions...
Harry Ferguson Inc. tried to make its own tractors. The company bought a Cleveland factory, but the plan fell through. Nobody wanted to put up the $8 million capital he needed. As Dearborn Motors took over Ferguson's suppliers and dealers, the Ferguson company began to fall apart...