Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent study of 28 of our former office boys showed that after a decent interval seven had become writers, nine were executives in various business departments, and five were salesmen or junior salesmen in the advertising department. One of the few tapped by Managing Editor T. S. Matthews for his staff was so taken with the thought of becoming a TIME writer that before his new assignment began he had worried himself into the hospital with the familiar occupational ailment of journalists everywhere: duodenal ulcers. He has since calmed down and is doing well...
George Mueller, 43, a graduate engineer out of Carnegie Tech, was an employe of the Duquesne Light Co. Nine years ago the Duquesne management encouraged its employes to form an independent union-thus hoping to keep out A.F.L. and C.I.O., which were sniffing at the door. The employes formed their union and subsequently elected talkative, affable, erratic George as their president...
That left nine seats for the G.O.P. to pick up. They would have to do it in 14 states...
Moriarty and nine other G.I.s of the Labor Supervision Office, where he works, put an ad in the local paper: "Ten American soldiers are willing to spend free time organizing club for German boys ages 10 to 17. No politics allowed...
Whatever his chief target may have been, Generalissimo Joseph Stalin's peace talk, like a swivel-mounted machine gun, raked world affairs from a variety of interesting angles last week. The talk consisted of answers to nine apparently prearranged questions by London Sunday Times Russophile Correspondent Alexander Werth...