Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...schedule it for the depths of winter, because it is hard to get out the workingman's full vote in cold weather. The Labor Party machinery was not tuned up for an election before spring. The shrewdest observers, sure that Attlee and Morrison did not want a fall election, predicted a date around May i. But Nye Bevan was reported to be insisting on a "snap" autumn election. If that was really what he wanted, he might get it, for in the drab ranks of Labor statesmen he was the nearest thing to a popular hero...
...Life of Riley (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). Fall return...
...long postwar slump. Last week the Bureau of Internal Revenue announced that August was the fourth month this year to run ahead of 1948's corresponding month in admissions tax returns. To make things even brighter, Dr. George Gallup's Audience Research, Inc. reported a steady fall in the average price of admission paid by U.S. moviegoers. With total receipts on the rise, that spelled growing attendance. The average spent for a ticket in August was 45?, compared to a postwar peak of 48.8? early in the year...
Empty Saddle. In Vernon, Tex., veteran Cowpoke Tony Hazelwood, riding herd on the fall roundup, cracked three ribs in the crash of his bucking helicopter...
Cornell is the best football team Harvard will face in the Stadium all fall. It has depth, experience, and tremendous team speed, speed great enough to cause Art Valpey to rate it one of the four fastest teams in the country. And Coach George "Lefty" James never had it so good...