Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the minor roles, Dean Gitter as Harold and Courtlandt Gilmour as Landolph share top honors. As flunkies hired by the madman's family to act the part of Henry "secret advisers," they help reduce the margin between sanity and madness with fine, almost whimsical, performances. Patricia Rosenwald handles the routine assignment of her small part with more than minimum enthusiasm and ability...
...Money." National's first big move into chemicals was to build an $11.5 million plant for producing metallic sodium and chlorine at Ashtabula, Ohio; with sales of $8,500,000 a year, it now has the highest profit margin of any National division. Next, Bierwirth paid $6,700,000 for a 25% interest in U.S. Industrial Chemicals, Inc. (industrial alcohol, antifreeze, resins, etc.), has since merged the company with National. He then bought a 20% interest in Intermountain Chemical Corp. (soda ash), and for $4,500.000 bought Algonquin Chemical Co., Inc. (caustic soda, sulphuric acid, chlorine...
...Theodore Roosevelt Dalton got almost 45% of the votes, more than any Republican candidate for governor in Virginia history (the 50-year average: 29%), but it was not enough. Furniture Manufacturer Thomas B. Stanley, backed by every unit of Harry Byrd's Democratic machine, was elected by a margin of more than 44,000 votes. In their own Virginia way, the Byrdmen pitched their campaign against Dalton on the argument that he was a big-spending, high-debt, New Deal type...
Eliot coasted to an easy 19-0 victory over the winless Bellboys on the strength of a first period pass that went for 15 yards, bolstered by two more safety margin scores in the second and third periods...
Sprawling Los Angeles yearns for the day when it will replace Philadelphia as the nation's third largest city. Local boosters confidently expected the great day was at hand when the 1950 census was tabulated, but they were disappointed: Philadelphia was still half a head taller, by a margin of 101,247 citizens. Last week Los Angeles added up a special-tax reapportionment census, and the results were maddening. In all Los Angeles, there were just 2,071,271 citizens. Philadelphia, with a 1950 population of 2,071,605, was still -barely-bigger. But chagrined city fathers were...