Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week for every automobile manufacturer but one, fourth-quarter production totals were well above the mark of a year ago (biggest gainer: Ford). Fourth-quarter sales were enormously up. The one whose production was down-to zero -was Chrysler Corp., beset for seven weeks by C.I.O. trouble...
...Rawalpindi ignored a shot across her bows, Deutschland fired a salvo with her 11-inch guns at 10,000 yards. Rawalpindi replied with all four of her starboard 6-inchers. Deutschland's, third salvo put out all the Britisher's lights, halted the electric ammunition hoists; a fourth tore away the bridge and wireless room. The second raider circled astern and attacked from Rawalpindi's, port side, but she fought on for half an hour until her last gun was silenced and she was ablaze everywhere except forecastle and poop. Of three boatloads of survivors, two were...
...fifth night before the event likewise was unfavorable and again the plan had to be postponed. The night from the fourth to third day before Nov. 8, however, gave Elser an opportunity to fix his timing mechanism in the prepared dynamite chamber...
Socially, Indian Moslems are a solid, self-conscious minority group (just less than one-fourth of India's population) ; Hindus are a loosely-bound, sect-split, caste-stratified majority (three-fourths...
...highlight of the game was Joe Phelan's thrilling catch of a Yale penalty kick in the fourth quarter. It was this save more than anything else that inspired the Yardlings to stop those last minute Blue drives at any cost...