Word: margin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Consequently, it seems fairly clear that if Harvard is to win, it will have to pile up its winning margin in the first half--before the team tires...
...stuck doggedly to his decision not to hold an election this year. A straw poll recently conducted by Labor's Transport House had indicated that if the election were held now, Labor would get a majority of not more than 40 seats in the House of Commons. This margin is too thin to withstand severe crises, Laborites think. They believe that by next spring they will be either over the fence or crumpled up in front of it. Said one: "we're determined to have a damned good shot at getting out of this mess...
...sold as high as 514, lost 77 points to close at 260; Adams Express, which had once been up to 750, lost 96 to close at 440. The closing bell stopped the selling. All night, brokers sent out frantic telegrams to the hundreds of thousands who had bought on margin, putting up as little as 10% of the cash price of the stock. Most of them had no more cash to put up to cover their losses. Thus the stage was set for Oct. 24-"Black Thursday...
...Burial. Prices steadied, but on Monday the selling began again. Steel tumbled to 186, General Electric lost 47⅛ points. Tickers again fell nearly three hours behind, and again thousands of new margin calls went out for the money that couldn't be begged or borrowed. Thus came "Black Tuesday...
After the resignation (TIME, Oct. 17) of the Radicals' Henri Queuille (because of Socialist contumacy), President of the Republic Vincent Auriol had called on Socialist Jules Moch, a hard-hitting Minister of Interior in the Queuille regime, to see what he could do. By the narrowest margin in French parliamentary history, Moch had been approved by the Assembly, but he could not form a cabinet. It seemed that neither of the other two parties in the center coalition, the Radicals and Popular Republicans, wanted a Socialist premier. Then long-suffering M. Auriol called on the Radicals...