Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Board Bonanza. But the majority of the reports showed rises, many of them of whopping size over strike-ridden 1946. In steel, Republic led with a nine-month net of $23,111,631, up 143% over the same period last year. Other big gainers were Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. (up 234% to a nine-month net of $8,727,826), Burroughs Adding Machine Co. (up 367% to $4,403,050), Container Corp. of America...
...York Stock Exchange reported that in the first nine months this year, 805 companies listed on the Big Board paid dividends totaling $2,152,265,000, a rise of 21.5% over the total of dividends paid by the same companies in the same period last year...
...waist to make a long-skirted, flounce-hipped evening dress, or taken off entirely to make a bathing suit. Among the more popular items (according to spectator ballots and a poll of designers present) were dresses and coats with foot-square monograms on the back. Not so popular were nine outfits for men, including a purple suede topcoat with shoes and hatband to match...
Died. Carlo Cardinal Salotti, 77, Bishop of Palestrina; of a liver ailment; in Rome. A Cardinal since 1935, for the past nine years he had been Prefect of the Congregation of Rites (the organization which prepares argumentative evidence for & against the creation of new saints and blesseds). A persuasive orator, he had previously served as Promoter of the Faith ("The Devil's Advocate"), whose role is to argue as persuasively as possible against the candidate for canonization...
...managed to effect a forty percent salary increase for all city employees, buy $1,200,000 worth of war surplus equipment for $300,000, and appropriate $1,500,000 for permanent veterans housing. The majority of these improvements were passed by a slim 5-4 vote in the nine-man Council. Any decision by Cambridge voters either to reelect the five Councilmen favoring Plan E or to discard managerial government should be made with regard to the merits or demerits of the system and not because of the truculent howls of frustrated politicians...