Word: fives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four days later, the eleven aging paladins emerged from the council rooms with something of the look of driven elephants. Beaming at their heels came Dave Dubinsky. The A.F.L., President William Green announced, would send five delegates to a London meeting in the fall to establish a new world federation of free labor. For Dubinsky and his friends, it was a full victory after a determined four-year fight...
...I.L.G.W.U.'s domain embraces five buildings in New York (including the old Tammany Hall), 16 in other cities. It runs three FM stations, has just bought an AM station. Its educational department is the nation's best, and the union offers scholarships to Harvard and Wisconsin to deserving young unionists. Its recreation program runs everything from hikes to dance groups...
...away. The chief opened fire and Craig, huddled in the deep shadows with a pistol in either hand, began shooting back. Two detectives stepped in, Tommy guns hammering, and Craig went down-shooting even as his body twitched under the blows of bullets. The big fight, in which five policemen, one child and one woman bystander had been wounded, was over...
These two fields, plus strikes in the surrounding area, add up to one of the major North American oil developments in recent years. Alberta's known reserves are generally estimated at a billion barrels, its potential as high as five billion. If it should prove to be five billion, Alberta might eventually rival west Texas, today the biggest oil-producing area in North America...
...skill has made dramatic gains during recent years in saving the lives of premature babies, but along with this advance a disturbing fact was noted: among babies weighing less than three pounds at birth, about one out of eight went blind, usually in both eyes. Those weighing three to five pounds were less susceptible. By one estimate, the price of the advance in science was that 500 U.S. babies a year might be afflicted...