Word: fourths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Future. Few or none of the broken levees have been repaired, leaving a constant threat of new floods from even slight rises in the Mississippi. Some Arkansas farmers have already planted three crops, seen them all washed away, are now planting a fourth. Stagnant waters have formed tremendous swamps, mosquito-infested. There is fear of a large scale outbreak of malaria. Mr. Hoover has estimated that Red Cross funds will last till Nov. 1, with $3,000,000 left over. There seemed little prospect that the flood area, as a whole, would be in any way self-supporting by November...
...South Australia, with a population of 543,122, ranks fourth most populous among the eight states and territories which comprise the Continent: New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, North Territory and Federal Capital Territory. Although the area of Australia (2,974,581 sq. mi.) is about two-thirds that of the U. S., the total population (5,929,288) is only slightly more than that of New York City (5,873,366). * Regions North of Australia are: British Siberia; and the Union of Socialist Soviet Islands ; Japan ; Korea ; China ; Manchuria ; Siberia; and the Union of Socialist...
When members of the International Chamber of Commerce started for their fourth annual congress in Stockholm last week, there were grand hopes that that organization of practical financiers and businessmen would make definite moves towards smoothing out the international exchange of commodities, of breaking down or at least lowering national tariff walls...
During the second set Señorita de Alvarez suddenly switched from backcourt play to a furious storming of the net which had about it the flavor of a battle cry: "For King and Country!" Soon Miss Wills had lost the third game, the fourth, the sixth, the seventh. Señorita de Alvarez led by one game and fairly scintillated pleasure. Throughout she had shown the full gamut of emotion whenever a point went for or against her. Europeans in the gallery warmed to approval of her frank spontaneity. Anglo-Saxons beamed pridefully upon the correct, emotionless, orthodox sportswomanship...
...reduction of at least 10% in wages of employes working at their Hollywood studio. Only men and women getting $50 a week or more were affected immediately. But those receiving pay in the higher brackets were obliged to accept cuts up to 25%. President Adolph Zukor knocked one-fourth off his own pay check, as did his chief officials. This made Paramount-Famous-Lasky's top payroll read for the year, according to reports from their Manhattan office: Adolph Zukor, president, $150,000; Jesse L. Lasky, vice president, $150,000; Sidney R. Kent, general manager, $75,000; Walter Wanger...