Word: mid-march
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...crews turned up two more islands, named them T-2 and T3. Fletcher studied them, picked T-3 for his weather station. Then he convinced Major General William D. Old that it was time to organize Project Icicle. The time to land on T3, they decided, was shortly after mid-March. The earth would be tilted properly on its axis and they would have the benefit of 24-hour daylight...
...Frozen Smile. So the income tax was crushed to earth again. It is possible to fix the day, the hour, the minute, almost the very second when it began to rise again, a rise that was to lead without serious check to the Great Disgorging of mid-March 1952. President Theodore Roosevelt, who had been annoyed for some time at what he called "the dull, purblind folly of the very rich men," made a speech on April 14, 1906, at the cornerstone laying of the new House Office Building. Congressman Champ Clark, long the Democratic House leader, gave this account...
...mid-March the new fabrics-for curtains, bedspreads and slip covers-will be on sale in a thousand-odd stores across the nation. Riverdale's initial printing of close to a quarter of a million yards has brought the average price down to $2.50 a yard. Lewenthal, the plump promoter-president of Manhattan's middlebrow Associated American Artists, thinks that is about right. The market for high-priced art is dwindling, he figures, and art's greatest potential patron is the budget-conscious housewife...
...singers, conductors, and musicians. City Opera's topnotch Conductor Jean Morel promptly announced his resignation in protest. Halasz refused to resign, demanded an open hearing. But the board's mind seemed to be made up. Conductor Joseph Rosenstock was named to direct the spring season, opening in mid-March...
...than a month, Wall Street's bulls & bears have been casting their horoscopes to see which way the stock market was headed. After hitting its bull-market high of 255.71 on the Dow-Jones industrial average in February, the market sagged off to a low of 243.95 in mid-March. But when jubilant bears began looking for the kill the market, contrarily, rose...