Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foods & Squeezes. Under President Truman's new wage-price policy, Chet Bowles will turn OPA over to Paul Porter, a longtime friend and admirer who will become the fourth price boss of World War II and the fifth in the nation's history. Moving up to the post of Economic Stabilizer, Bowles will still fight OPA's battle for ceilings, will have additional power over wages and allocations...
...Hartke, who shouldered the experiment nine years ago. He started off trying to raise $100,000 for productions, wound up with $200. There were some close shaves. Once Robert Speaight guest-acted for four performances in T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral. Then C.U. staged a fifth performance-to raise enough money...
...most expensive strip of real estate in the world (Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, between 42nd and 57th Streets) stand four churches. One of them is the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, whose 79-year-old, brownstone steeple is dwarfed by the neighboring towers of Rockefeller Center, the spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral...
...corner lot in the city of Boston." Last week Dr. Sizoo's fight had apparently succeeded. Two parishioners had offered $350,000 toward redeeming the mortgage if others would contribute a like amount. It looked as if God could still afford a corner lot on Fifth Avenue...
Married. Henry Benjamin ("Hank") Greenberg, 35, sad-faced, Charley Horsy left fielder of baseball's champion Detroit Tigers; and Caral Gimbel Lasker, 30, horsy daughter of Manhattan Merchant Prince Bernard Feustman Gimbel (Gimbel Bros., Saks Fifth Avenue); he for the first time, she for the second; at Brunswick...