Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extent of guerrilla activities in occupied areas was indicated in a map published this week by the Intelligence Officers of the U. S. Fourth Marines stationed at Shanghai. It looked like the vision of a cartographer who had just been clubbed over the head. Big stars marking guerrilla-controlled areas, showed that actual Japanese control extends only a few miles each side of railroads, rivers, canals. Six stars dotted the map above Peking...
...banks pay 2 % interest on Government deposits, helped Carter Glass push through the Federal Reserve Act. The War saw McAdoo's zenith as a public servant: he issued $370,000,000 in emergency currency in three months, ran the spy-hunting Secret Service, floated four Liberty Loans, the Fourth being the biggest of all bond issues (23,000,000 subscriptions totaling $6,989,047,000), served as Director General of all U. S. railroads after Wilson took them over by proclamation...
...Curran, unopposed in the election, was nominally on top as president. But under him were four hostile members of the new national council of nine officers. Beefy, flaccid Fireman Jerome King defeated Communist Jack Lawrenson for secretary treasurer. Two others also were out & out anti-Curran men. A fourth leaned not so much against popular Joe Curran as against the Communist friends to whom he, though no Communist, turned for counsel in the union's early days. Eager to move in on Curran headquarters in Manhattan, move out Curran men and policies, Fireman King & friends were aware that...
...some years has been the leading exporter among the nations of the world. . . . We export, on the average, more than one-third of our total production of leaf tobacco, half of our cotton, half of our phosphate rock and between a fourth and a half of our total production of canned and dried fruits. Among manufactured products, we export from a fourth to a half of our total production of sewing machines, printing and bookbinding machinery, office appliances, agricultural implements and aircraft. One out of ten of all American-made automobiles normally goes abroad. . . . Likewise, substantial quantities of our petroleum...
...never rose above $4,609,000, never fell below $3,602,000. Last week, on General Mills' tenth anniversary, President Donald D. Davis released the company's financial statement for fiscal 1938 (ending May 31). Net income was $4,110,631, $192,758 below last year but fourth highest in its ten-year history. The company also earned a surplus of $777,127, which it reinvested in the business. Kept intact was General Mills' proudest record: its stock is one of 18* listed on the New York Stock Exchange on which dividends ($6 on the preferred...