Word: fives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Twenty-five years after the era of the Stutz Bearcat and the racoon coat the undergraduate is passing by the classics to jump up end down on the atom. The social isolation of Harvard's first 300 years has been washed away in the revitalizing democratization process of its last 15. Harvard's horizons have broadened and Harvard's "A" has narrowed. But Harvard's crew still rows four miles against Yale at the end of June and all the accompanying hoopla is still there...
...with Tucker were Harold A. Karsten, alias Abraham Karatz, a promoter who once served a jail term for bank embezzlement conspiracy; former Investment Banker Floyd D. Cerf, whose firm had a net worth of only $87,352, yet made $2,500,000 on the sale of Tucker stock; and five former Tucker directors...
Last week, at a time when U.S. retailers were feeling a sag in sales (average: 4%), Penney's was still booming. In the first five months this year, its sales of $305 million were 5% higher than in 1948. Penney's was completing three new stores (in Houston, Sault Sainte Marie, Mich, and Midvale, Utah), expanding its store in Albuquerque, opening another one in Oklahoma City. Next January it will also open a big new store in Springfield, Mass., its 1,608th outlet...
...General Electric Co.'s Erie works this week, railroad men will get their first good look at a new locomotive. It resembles a diesel on the outside, but is radically different on the inside. The engine, developed over a five-year period by G.E. and American Locomotive Co., is a gas turbine-electric locomotive, the first of its kind in the U.S. It was ready for test runs on the Union Pacific Railroad...
...Betty Jo Hill, suing for alimony, told the court that her husband "ignored me completely and devoted himself exclusively to watching the television programs." In Denver, police learned that Private Sam Fowler, hospitalized with a bullet wound in his hip, had criticized his wife's cooking; she took five shots at him with a .38 revolver. In Vancouver, B.C., Mrs. Constance McLeod got a divorce after testifying that her husband bit a piece out of their marriage certificate and threatened to make her eat the rest...