Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sorely bruised Central America's banana trade. In 1943 it shrank to less than a shriveled fifth of prewar normal. While the banana liners were diverted to more pressing runs, the golden fruit was left to rot where it grew. United Fruit, first lord of the banana empire, maintained its dividends mainly through revenue from ships and Cuban sugar estates. In Central America, United helped make up for U.S. losses of Manila hemp (and incidentally kept Central Americans employed) by cultivating needed abac...
...Drinking with the boys" topped the list of blights on marital bliss. "Other women" ran a weak fifth, behind such minor vices as failure to bring home a box of candy, or a tendency to domineer. "Ashes on the rug" was a surprising last...
...Archibald Clark Kerr, Britain's special envoy to Indonesia, time dragged as sluggishly as a sick carabao. While he waited for Indonesians and Dutch to get together, the Ambassador visited Surabaya, where tall, mustachioed Major General Eric Mansergh, Commander of the Fifth Indian Division, invited him to give British troops a lecture about Russia...
Nevertheless, the popularity of Kaye's show has come up faster than any other new program's. On the air for little more than a year, he tied Veteran Jimmy Durante for fifth place in the Radio Daily popularity poll...
...Government-owned aluminum plants near Spokane, Wash., the $47,630,000 Trentwood rolling mill and the $22,270,000 Mead reduction plant. The Kaiser-Frazer-Corp., and Kaiser Cargo, Inc. which did the actual leasing, will pay rentals from $458,000 the first year to $3,915,000 the fifth year...