Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Defense Lawyer Stryker may command big fees, but his reputation was not enhanced by all of the blarney which the majority of the jury so easily sensed. Federal Prosecutor Tom Murphy, who draws a small salary for hard work well done, had it over Stryker "like a tent." His summation was a gem of logical courtroom oratory. By the way ... if Tom had needed help in his argument, he could have called on his brother (none other than "Fireman" Murphy, ex-Yankee pitcher) to quench Stryker's pyrotechnic palaver...
...Window. Killers stalk a twelve-year-old witness (Bobby Driscoll) through a jungle of Manhattan tenements (TIME, May...
Equally impressive evidence was available on the optimistic side. Stocks were undoubtedly getting stronger because many of them were paying their owners bigger returns. The Department of Commerce reported that dividend payments in May were up 14% over 1948; for the half-year, added the New York Stock Exchange, the Big Board companies had paid out 11.2% more than in the 1948 period...
Home of the Brave. A combat case history that slugs hard at anti-Negro prejudice (TIME, May...
When television sales began to blur several months ago, Admiral Corp.'s President Ross Siragusa thought he had the answer. By stamping entire console cabinets out of plastic in one piece (TIME, May 16), he was able to step up output and make some handsome price cuts. Last week it looked as though Siragusa's answer was right. Admiral Corp. had a second-quarter profit of $1.6 million, 129% more than its net for the same 1948 period...