Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...departed for Europe for further "investigation" of the D.P. situation, and sent back a warning that "this country will be inundated with a flood of aliens." Michigan's Homer Ferguson patiently refuted his arguments, pointed out that 134,000 was scarcely an inundation, amounted to less than a fifth of one percent of the labor force. But McCarran's allies carried on. For nearly six hours, Washington's garrulous lightweight, Harry P. Cain, held the floor with a low-grade filibuster. The D.P. opponents talked on, counting on the dwindling attendance to aid their cause...
Gloria Swanson, fiftyish, oldtime movie femme fatale now trying a Hollywood comeback, learned that the will of her fifth husband, Broker William M. Davey, "intentionally refrained" from leaving anything of his $300,000 estate...
Last week, in the loft, the Cohens auctioned off all their winnings except a Nash automobile, a $900 television set, a few pieces of jewelry and a $1,000 merchandise slip from Saks Fifth Avenue. They saw a $1,700 diamond wristwatch go for $550, a $1,000 tile bathroom for $430, a $900 home workshop for $410. When the auctioneer's gavel fell for the last time, the Cohens had taken in about $4,000 in cash from their $28,000 windfall. After lawyer bills, warehouse rentals, auctioneer's commission, taxes and Mrs. Cohen's five...
...many another oriental potentate, the late Reza Pahlevi, Shah-in-Shah (King of Kings) of Persia, combined forthright admiration for Western social and industrial progress with a darkly suspicious opinion of the men who make it. As a result, he brought his 628,000-square-mile empire (about one-fifth the size of the U.S.) some mixed blessings. When the old Shah wanted railroads, for instance, he got railroads-but not always where his foreign advisers thought they would do Persia the most good...
Arlon Adams was the second Crimson finisher, coming in fifth. Two other Harvard men finished in the first...