Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protesting the twin-league system proposed by Samborski, the House Athletic Directors pointed out that one loss and a tie would automatically prevent any squad from finishing higher than fifth place at the end of the season...
...Michigan, four-term Congressman Bartel J. Jonkman (pronounced Yonkman) was defeated in the week's biggest upset. A bitter-end G.O.P. isolationist who liked to refer to ERP as "Burp," Jonkman had always received most of the Dutch vote in the fifth district's "Little Netherlands." This year he did not bother to do much campaigning. His opponent, Gerald R. Ford Jr., 35, did. A Grand Rapids lawyer and onetime University of Michigan football star, Ford had hundreds of volunteers pushing doorbells for him, time & again dared Jonkman to debate his foreign-policy stand. Jonkman refused. Back-slapping...
...fifth Rockefeller enterprise, Helicóptero Comercial, S.A., was formed only last week. Its aim: to contract with São Paulo coffee growers to spray their plantations against the deadly broca borer. Rockefeller's technicians found out that ordinary aerial spraying was missing the bugs, but that helicopters, hovering just over the trees and beating the chemical dust right down to the ground, could get them every time...
...food processors. After paying its first common dividend in ten years in the first quarter of the year, Armour decided not to pay a dividend this summer. Said Armour's Board Chairman George A. Eastwood: "Our earnings on meat last year were at the rate of about one-fifth of a cent a pound. Obviously a profit of one-fifth cent cannot be responsible for the increase which has taken place in meat prices since before the war." Nevertheless, the suit helped drive packing shares on the New York Stock Exchange to their year...
...very dead porpoise has suddenly come alive to the nostrils of visitors to the Museum of Comparative Zoology. So startling was the odor that museum staff members still can't agree why the stuffed specimen was hastily whisked off exhibit and exiled to a corner of the Museum's fifth floor...