Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manufacturer who loses money for 30 days under the margin regulation can apply for hardship relief. But then he will run into another tough hurdle, which Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston set up last week. No company will get price boosts if the industry to which it belongs is making 85% of the profits of the three best years from...
...Yardlings trounced the Ram freshman 116 2/3 to 23 1/3, Pete Dow won both dashes, Gil Murray the discus and shot put (bettering the varsity margin in the latter), and John Walecka took the hammer, finishing second in both the discus and shot put. Ed Maguire was victorious in the mile in the good freshman time...
Shortly after the boats passed under the bridge, the Crimson began to close slightly the two length lead Cambridge had built up. As the shells skimmed by the Jordan Marsh building, approximately the mile and a half mark, the Crimson had sliced the visitors' margin to a few feet less than a length, but during the last lap, when both crews went up to about 37, superb precision and better condition paid off, and Cambridge pulled ahead a little shy of a half length more...
...Hollywood, when Mrs. Clara Samossoud, daughter of Mark Twain and widow of Pianist-Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch, put her father's 3,000-volume library up for sale, some rare literary footnotes came to light. In the margin of one book, scrawled in Twain's own hand, was a note on his attempted suicide in 1866: "I put the pistol to my head but wasn't man enough to pull the trigger. Many times I have been sorry I did not succeed, but I was never ashamed of having tried. Suicide is the only really sane thing...
Even Price Stabilizer Michael Di Salle was aware that the drop in buying, rather than controls, has stopped the rise in some prices. Nevertheless, last week he served up another batch of controls, extended his profit margin restrictions (TIME, April 9) to radio and TV sets, houseware, luggage and chinaware...