Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deadly Sport. In Wisconsin, where the deer season was at its height, hunters shot at everything that moved, including each other. In five days, 14 hunters were dead - five by gunshot wounds, nine by heart attack - and many another woods man was grazed by bullets. William Brown spent eight days in Michigan's upper peninsula, trying to get a shot at a deer; on the way home, he ran down and killed an eight-point buck with his automobile. At Boulder Junction, Wis., a rifle bullet crashed through a school bus and the trigger-happy hunter explained that...
Down Steel. First to show signs of industrial starvation were the big users of coal. Steel production was down to 60% of capacity v. 91.4% the week before the strike. (In the first week of last spring's coal strike it had dropped only nine points.) This week, it is expected to drop to 50% of capacity, or lower. The magazine Steel predicted it would drop below last spring's low of 43% of capacity, if the strike lasted another week...
...reasons why T.W.A. needed the cash were dismally plain. In the third quarter, T.W.A. reported last week, it had lost $3,235,491, bringing the net loss for the first nine months to $4,846,450. The third quarter losses, said President Jack Frye, were caused by CAA's grounding of Constellations. And the pilots' strike was likely to make the fourth quarter the worst of the year...
...University will send a nine-man team against Dartmouth at 9 o'clock on Saturday. With the Crimson victor in every formal match even played against Dartmouth, the odds are strongly in favor of the local racqueteers for this match...
...former Wabash, Indiana star, and captain of this year's five, racked up 31 points with 15 field goals and one foul. Dick Covey, Frank Lionette, and Chusk Brynteson also hit double figures with ten markers apiece. Pat Dailey, six foot four inch center, was one tally behind with nine points to his credit...