Word: fives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sizable upturn had come. Instead, production in April (as measured by the Federal Reserve index based on the 1935-39 average) had tumbled another 5 points to 179. The index stood a full 16 points below last November's postwar peak of 195. This was the sharpest five-month drop since the 1945 reconversion shakeout after...
...Steel's Chairman Irving S. Olds was cool enough. He calmly used the management's 8,889,042 proxy votes to kill a proposal to move the annual meeting to Manhattan. Olds's action roused Stockholder Wilma Soss (five shares), who recently founded the Federation of Women Shareholders in American Business, Inc. Mrs. Soss had come to the meeting dressed in a 1901 costume with mutton-chop sleeves and ostrich-plumed hat. As Chairman Olds and President Benjamin F. Fairless listened in polite boredom, Stockholder Soss sassed them. Her costume, she said, was appropriate for a management...
Died. Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones, 62, Canadian-born pulp fic-tioneer; of a heart ailment; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Able to keep five manuscripts boiling at the same time, Bedford-Jones ground out 100 novels, countless short stories, estimated that by writing fast, instead of well, he had earned...
Fifty miles off the north coast of Sicily, the dying volcano of Stromboli juts 3,000 feet out of the tepid Tyrrhenian. Italians call its five square miles l'isola nera (the black island), remember that in ancient days its crater was known as the gateway to purgatory...
...Stucco. Four months ago, Rossellini arrived in Hollywood and called on the Lindstroms. Husband Peter, who took a liking to the visitor, urged Ingrid to accept Rossellini's invitation to make a picture on Stromboli. Roberto, a balding, middle-aged (43) man with an estranged wife and a five-year-old son, joyfully hurried home. In preparation for the arrival of his famous star, it was reported, he took a course of reducing baths...