Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Diego, the turnstiles were spinning. With 34% more population to draw on than before the war, attendance in the bustling Pacific Coast League was running well ahead of last year (1946's record total: 3,718,716). But was this proof that the P.C.L. had outgrown its minor-league uniforms? All sport attendance figures were in the clouds-and there was no denying that it took a pretty big customer to fill a major-league suit...
...Richmond, Flying Instructor Brock Minor scattered 50 lbs. of dry ice into a cumulus cloud at 8,400 feet, brought the city its first shower in two weeks...
...parties: Juliu Maniu of the National Peasants, Constantin Bratianu of the National Liberals, and Titel Petrescu of the Socialists. The Communists, because of their small number (fewer than 2,000 in the entire country) and the fact that most of their leaders were still in prison, played only a minor role...
...Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m. NBC). Chopin's Polonaise in A-Flat Major, Debussy's Clair de Lune, Grieg's Erotik and Concerto in A Minor (last movement). Guest: Pianist Artur Rubinstein...
...year-old junior clerk, rose to $57,000 (a year) as senior vice president, and was in line for its presidency when, in 1941, he left to run the wartime oil industry for Interior Secretary Harold Ickes. His war job done, Davies found himself relegated to a minor vice presidency at Standard. He resigned rather than let Ickes-who had bought ten shares of Standard of California stock for that purpose-fight for his reinstatement...