Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wages and savings. These are being disproven by the reports, from the Federal Reserve Board and Bureau of Agricultural Economics showing that the rich got richer and the poor remained poor. One of every five families in 1945 had less than $1000 income; another group of more than one-fifth had less than $2000 income. Wartime savings are concentrated almost exclusively in families well above these income levels...
...Monarchy, greetings from a representative of the noble, glorious, social, democratic Republic. Replying to your invitation to this administration to pay 21,500 lire for ... ceding 191 hectares to hungry peasants, I have the honor to inform you that the peasants will pay nothing. They will give you one-fifth of the crop and keep the remainder as the just reward of the sweat they pour out to build a new Italy where Justice, not kings, shall reign. I am, sir, your most obedient servant...
Sunk to the Eyebrows. Indian mystic Krishna "had been touted ... as an 'untouchable,' so much so that when I walked down Fifth [Avenue] with him he had to beg me to get him into a taxi since the females pestered him so." Flagg's own pestering gets considerably more space in his book. The story of his love life starts in low gear ("How was I to know that beautiful Nellie, voluptuous and sweet to look upon, was physically frigid?"), but soon shifts into high...
Hutchins, who already holds four jobs in the Britannica hierarchy, will add a fifth: chairman of the board of editors. He plans to concentrate on two projects: 1) hopping up Britannica's 24 films a year (most of which strike him as "too timid, too unimaginative"), thereby leading the way in an "enormous development" of educational films aimed at new, cheaper projectors; 2) editing a 63-volume, "popular-priced" ($200-$250) set of "the great books of the western world," first one-package edition of the "100 Books," many of which are out of print...
Died. Evalyn McLean Reynolds, 24, fifth wife of ex-Senator Robert R. Reynolds, daughter of wealthy Evalyn Walsh McLean, owner of the "unlucky" Hope Diamond; reportedly of an accidental overdose of sleeping pills; in Washington...