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Word: fives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the first 18 holes, Coe was five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Upset at Rochester | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...Angels. As usual, canny old (74) Lee Shubert, whose theatrical real-estate empire controls half of Manhattan's playhouses, was trying to keep ahead of the game. In 1948-49, he knew, radio and television had taken over five legitimate theaters. To keep his houses from gathering cobwebs, "Mister Lee" planned to import at least four plays from London and possibly produce some himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Season in Manhattan? | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...plant we have, management has gone in and given [workers] the low-down facts on the business ... I think they are entitled to know. I know that if I were back at the bench working I would want to know a darned sight more than I was told. Forty-five years ago, they told me nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Tell 'Em | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...ball while winning New England's golf championship in 1930. Since 1931, when Maine's Sanford Mills and Goodall Worsted Co. first decided to make Palm Beach suits as well as Palm Beach cloth, Ward has been running their suitmaking subsidiary, the Goodall Co. Five years ago he consolidated his position by buying control of the mills and merging them into a new parent company, Goodall-Sanford Inc., with himself as president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLOAKS & SUITS: Stitch in Time | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...town trade, instead of splitting it with a "correspondent" on another exchange. Businessmen also took to the idea of getting a wider market for their companies' shares; a little-known stock like St. Louis' Johnson, Stephens & Shinkle Shoe Co. could now be traded in five cities instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECURITIES: 4 Into 1 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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