Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then the weather and the customers' sales resistance thawed out together. Vice President J. Chalmers O'Brien of the Loop's 104-year-old Carson Pirie Scott reported that the Monday before Christmas, sales were the highest for any shopping day ever, and "by quite a margin." Near the North Shore, the Old Orchard shopping center said that its tenant Marshall Field "had terrific 1957 figures to beat this year, but they...
...Kansas' Sixth District, where the margin of Incumbent Republican Wint Smith over Democrat Elmo J. Mahoney was so narrow (233 votes) that the committee recommended an investigation of Mahoney's charge of irregularities...
...decide whether to trim capital expenditures as in past recessions. We felt sure that renewed growth was coming, so instead of cutting down drastically-which would only mean having to race the motor later to catch up-we went ahead and proceeded to build quite a lot of useful margin into our plant...
Brilliant set shooting by Harrington and Donohue and an aggressive zone defense led the varsity's first-half surge. The Crimson scored almost at will against the faltering Jumbos, stretching its margin to 35-19 at one point...
...Crimson is definitely going to have to improve its quality of swimming and regain the use of its injured men before it can hope to do well in the league. Though the varsity beat a strong Army team by a substantial margin, all the finishes were extremely close and could have easily gone the other way. This victory over M.I.T. should not convince anyone, including the team, that future victories are assured...