Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Terms for the 12 ranged from one to two months and, as such, were shorter than the one to four months probation terms which the nine men arrested in the outbreak received last Wednesday...
...hundred sixty-nine freshmen and I dropped in on President and Mrs. Conant for tea last Thursday afternoon. "There were a lot more last week," said a stony-faced immobile young woman who stood leaning beside the Conant's front door, registering the tea traffic on a small counting gadget...
Under aging Wonder Boy Dart, now 42, Rexall's earnings slipped from $4,048,403 in 1946 to $1,415,869 last year. For the first nine months of this year, Rexall reported a loss of $1,167,125. For the full year, Dart estimated last week, the loss would be cut, though it would still be around $500,000. Said Dart: "We knew that trouble was coming-but we didn't realize it would hit us so fast...
Despite the adversity of the game, Dart was still in it and he didn't seem to be in danger of being sent to the bench; of Rexall's 13 directors, nine are Rexall employees whom he appointed to the board. President Dart still hopes to boost business with his superstore plan. He has cut the number of Rexall-operated stores from 540 in 1946 to 340, hopes to level off with about 300 in 1950. Said he cheerily: "To those not in the company we look worse and worse. But inside, in the overhead department...
...Manhattan last week, an obscure company named Connecticut Boola, Inc. paid $4,500,000 to R. H. Macy & Co., to buy Macy's spanking new nine-story building in San Francisco. But there is nothing obscure about Connecticut Boola's parent: Boola is the wholly owned subsidiary of Yale University. The new owner promptly leased the store back to Macy's for 31 years and two months, at an average annual rental of $240,000. Thus Yale became Macy's San Francisco landlord...