Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aussie coaches go to other extremes. Talbot's own teacher, Frank Guthrie, saw to it that Olympic Champ Lorraine Crapp, 19, got hormone injections to delay her menses before the women's 440-yd. final in Melbourne last week. Her arm aching from the injections, Lorraine finished fourth...
...last week, there were some surprises. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. bopped General Motors Corp. as the nation's No. i earner -$852.9 million to $843.6 million-the first time in eleven years that G.M. has been dethroned. And some of the biggest companies showed earnings gains for the fourth quarter, despite the recession. > General Motors' yearly profits dipped to $2.99 a share v. $3.02 in 1956, but fourth-quarter earnings rose...
...Merck & Co.'s fourth quarter net increased from 45? to 51? a share, and profits for the whole year advanced 14%. CJ Reynolds Metals Co. brought in 88? a share in the fourth quarter v. 85? in 1956, but profits for the year dropped 8% in spite of record sales...
SLUMP WILL END by fourth quarter of 1958, predicts Leon Keyserling, onetime chairman of President Truman's Council of Economic Advisers. Keyserling expects economic activity for final quarter to run 3½% faster than 1957 pace, and this year's gross national product to hit $437.7 billion v. last year's $433.9 billion, with large gains in personal-consumption expenditures (up $3.6 billion) and U.S. Government buying (up $1.6 billion...
Supplying the demand, the town doubled in population, brought prosperity to thousands of people near by. Every fourth house became a small home factory with at least one buffing wheel. Of the 1,695 plants, the biggest had 13 workers; most had under four. It was hard, unhealthy work, and almost all the 11,000 workers have lost fingers on buffing, grinding or cutting wheels. But the price seemed well worth the return; many made as much as $70 a month, double the average Japanese wage. Tsubame was soon getting 43% of its revenue from the industry. Last year...