Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grosse Pointe, Mich., Judy Devlin, 23-year-old Baltimore schoolteacher and daughter of Former World Champion J. Frank Devlin, drubbed all opponents to win the U.S. open badminton singles for the fourth straight year, in the final allowed her opponent only a single point...
From the Council of Economic Advisers came a report confirming what most businessmen suspected: profits are back to prerecession levels, and climbing. At $21.6 billion for the fourth quarter of 1958, after-tax profits showed a $3 billion jump from the third quarter; undistributed profits, or the money companies still have after taxes, dividends, etc., were up to $9.8 billion, the highest level since the first quarter of boom year 1957. The high profit level, plus the assurance of a fine first-quarter report for 1959, gives U.S. industry plenty of money in the bank to keep the recovery rolling...
...Crimson Rugby Club will try for its fourth spring victory this afternoon as it takes on the Montreal Wanderers at the North Woburn playground field. The first game since spring vacation, this starts a six-game series that will decide the winner of the Eastern Rugby Union championship...
Even more depressing, as I glance through the shredded pages of my Sporting News, is the fact that the consensus of the country's best sporting minds can put the Red Sox--the Boston Red Sox--no better than fourth place. Surely this must be some sort of joke, and in bad taste at that. For years the best team in the American League--held back by a lamentable string of misfortunes, the Red Sox appear ready at last to move...
Below Bowditch, the present singles alignment has junior Tim Gallwey, whom Bowditch beat in a test match during the spring vacation trip at number two, with Weld playing third. Junior Fred Vinton is at fourth singles and pairs with Gallwey at second doubles. Lemann and senior Bill Wood, the sixth singles man, make up the third doubles pair...