Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nineteen-forty-nine's college graduates who are still looking for a job may have a harder time finding it than any graduating group since before the war, a government official warned this week...
Perhaps the most important reason for the current failure of the plan is the limited range of participating stores in the area of the Square. The success of the Purchase Card depends upon its local showing; the present nine member stores around the Square form a good nucleus, but the variety of goods, services, and price levels they cover is not wide enough to make the plan sell. In the minds of many students, the present Purchase Card System is merely an ineffective duplication of the Coop...
...Nine members of Congress today proposed a new, voluntary health insurance plan designed to provide the same care to the poor and well-to-do, at a cost scaled to each person's income...
Toscanini was, said the critics (and for the sixth time), the best "regular symphony conductor": his performance of Verdi's A'ida (TIME, April' 4) was "the outstanding event of the year," and the National Broadcasting Go. (which has put Toscanini on the air for nine years without benefit of sponsors) was "the network most faithful to serious music...
...been a strong force behind its conservative lending policies. Almost singlehanded, he put across the sale of $250 million in World Bank bonds at a time when U.S. investors were skeptical of the bank's future. With his help, the bank boosted its net for the first nine months of this fiscal year to $7,383,006 (v. $2,242,597 in the same 1948 period...