Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nine times in his eight months in office Premier Robert Schuman, the lean, leaning tower of French politics, had tottered on the brink of failure. Nine times he survived a vote of confidence by margins as small as 33, 23 and 16 Assembly votes...
...baseball last season (TIME, April 21, 1947). But Leo wasn't going to oblige. Said he to the messenger: "Hell no, I won't resign. He's going to have to fire me ... man to man." Then the Dodgers won seven of their next nine games, climbed to fifth place-and Rickey couldn't fire Durocher and look good doing...
...still makes the modest claim that he is the "world's greatest pitcher." Satchel† Paige was born in Mobile, Ala., 39, 43 or more probably 45 years ago, son of a landscape gardener and a mother who hated baseball. He was one of a family of nine-or sixteen. This mathematical inexactitude did not trouble Cleveland's President Bill Veeck last week. For all Veeck cared, Satchel might be "two or three decades" older than the next man-as long as he could pitch. Bob Feller had told Veeck that Paige was the relief man the league...
After 20 years of teaching, Corma Mowrey, with a master's degree from Duke, takes home $276 a month-nine months of the year. Summers she organizes teachers' conferences for the state education department...
Down to Earth. After nine years of research, H. A. Brassert Co. of New York City came up with a new trick in reducing ore to iron. By using anthracite instead of coke, Brassert can produce pure melting stock at $21 to $26 a ton (current average cost: $40); from the waste gas Brassert will make solid CO² (Dry Ice) at $15 a ton (present retail price: $35 to $65). In a new $1,250,000 iron-ice plant at New York, Brassert hopes to make enough the first year to pay off half the construction cost...