Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years and the investigators find themselves weary and empty-handed. The Intertate Commerce Commission has been investigated in one way or another for the last decade and the prospects for an effective and comprehensible criticism are dim indeed. Should you hope for something better from an investigation of twenty-nine such agencies...
...reflected in the appliance industry, where sales of home laundry equipment in the first quarter were down 18% from last year, and in lumber and other industries tied in with housing. Steelmakers also were still trimming production: in Buffalo, Republic Steel Corp. was operating only five of its nine steelmaking furnaces...
...With nine years' work and $250 million, Ford Motor Co. developed a new car so seemingly sleek that no known Detroit word could possibly describe it. What to name it? Soaring images tumbled from copywriters' brains; contests were held. But to Ford Special Products Division's David Wallace, a most literate carmaker, even the brightest, headiest names in all cardom were far from enough. This was no mere car; it was poetry in motion. And it was to the nation's leading poetess that Wallace went for help...
...affecting almost every facet of national economic life. The Federal Trades Commission, through its power to insure "fair methods of competition," exercises vital control over any firm engaging in commerce. The Federal Communications Commission, through its licensing requirements makes radio communication a privilege rather than a right. Altogether twenty-nine such agencies exist...
Phil Haughey singled off the third baseman's glove, and Repetto singled to left before Bergantino fanned. Nine runs, eight hits, one error...