Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Correll, the Crimson's chances didn't appear too bright; and when Captain Mark Tuttle, ace of the Crimson squad, lost his right shoe-spikes at the one mile mark, the team received a serious setback. Instead of dropping out of the race, though, Tuttle kept on going minus one shoe for the remaining three miles to finish fourth...
...Dewey charged that the Administration was too late with its reconversion plan, that it was afraid of the peace. Last week in Washington, on Election Day-minus-60, the planners scrambled furiously to show that Mr. Dewey was wrong. They minted a new phrase, "VE day" (Victory in Europe), for the time when Germany quits. Manpower Boss Paul V. McNutt bustled up Capitol Hill to tell a Senate committee what he will do, come V-E day. WPB's acting chairman, Julius A. Krug, was already sure of what he will...
...Election Day-minus-76, the Justice Department leapt at the throats of 47 Western railroads, their officials, the Western Association of Railway Executives...
Night Out. In The Bronx, a beer-drinking crow named Deacon, whose small vocabulary includes "bow-wow," flew out of the zoo, was discovered in a fight with a cat two blocks away, was returned to the zoo minus some feathers and smelling of beer from an unknown donor...
...minus one, a happy Wall Streeter cried: "The market has recovered from the invasion jitters." Next day came the invasion, and all market-guessing was 100% off. No one could tell how the market would eventually settle. But in the first few hours the market was rising, and many a stock hit new highs for the year...