Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four-week breakdown of the new fine system revealed that of 70,000 books borrowed since school has opened, only one per cent have come in after the nine a.m. deadline. At 75 cents for each book this amounts to $525, McNiff said, and this has brought a lot of student cooperation...
Spokesmen of the Cambridge Civic Association predicted that the 57,000 registered voters, a record number for a municipal election, would elect six CCA sponsored candidates to the nine-man Cambridge City Council. In the past, Councilmen of CCA sympathy have been outnumbered five to four on the City Council by "Independents...
Many another corporation was also worried over a cut in fourth-quarter earnings from the steel and coal strikes. Some had been hard hit already. Of 47 railroads reporting so far, only two (Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis, and the Bangor & Aroostook) showed a gain for the first nine months over 1948. Some were in the red (e.g., Pennsylvania's September loss of $2.7 million put it in the red for the first nine months, v. a $20.4 million profit in 1948), and a bad third quarter put all the rest down anywhere from 15% to 75% for the nine...
...McElroy, who worked up through P. & G. advertising to the presidency last October, the company boosted its net from $13.2 million to $19.7 million (a gain of nearly 50% for the Sept. 30 quarter). International Business Machines' Thomas J. Watson turned in a $24.7 million net for the nine months, up 16%, while most of his rivals felt declines. But many other giants were being nipped by faster-moving competitors...
...cases of the nine students who were arrested in Friday night's riot, and the 15 who lost their bursar's cards to the University police, will be considered at a meeting in Dean Bender's office at 2 p.m. today...