Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rate than usual, giving the lowest total for the disease year (April 1 to date) since 1947. Chicago remained the hot-spot exception, with a new case tallied almost hourly, for a total of 384 at week's end (60% of the victims were children under five), with nine dead. Of 26 victims who had been vaccinated, only two had had three shots; six had two shots...
...Prizewinner Meyer Berger, who had sat at his desk all day stitching together fragments from Times reporters, wire copy and the ship lines. His story spread across four columns, and in his clear, quiet prose, Berger wrote the most moving account of all. At last, wrote Berger, "it was nine minutes after ten under a brilliant summer sky when the Andrea Doria, in a final plunge, went down in 225 feet of water, her hull glistening, her shroud a rain of spray caused by her violent death . . . There was no sound from the rescue ships, only a murmur, a sound...
Niarchos spends little time at any of his nine offices from Hamburg to San Pedro, transacts top-level business with bankers and charterers (in fluent French or English) over leisurely luncheons at quietly opulent restaurants such as Manhattan's Chambord and London's Mirabelle. Wherever he goes, he is dogged by daily packets containing interoffice memos and notes from his staff. When he wants to discuss a project with an associate, Niarchos summons the man to his side, once kept staffers shuttling to and from Switzerland for three months while he recovered from a skiing accident...
...result of the investigation, Casey was indicted, but he later won immunity from prosecution by testifying before a grand jury. In 1953 the Justice Department also started moving against Niarchos, Onassis and other independents. In civil actions against nine of his companies, Niarchos was accused of misrepresenting them as American-owned corporations. Niarchos (who was then in London) and some 20 associates were also indicted on criminal charges; 17 U.S. staffers and consultants were arrested; 19 of his ships were seized. Niarchos argued that the Government's charges were "technical allegations," said that the Maritime Commission had not only...
...take a Ph.D. in 1937 at Ohio State University. His doctoral thesis (Study of Chain Store Merchandising Methods and Selling) established him as a drug merchandising authority. Nolen stayed on to teach at O.S.U., rose to head the university's marketing department before McKesson & Robbins hired him nine years ago as vice president. A World War II colonel, he served on General Eisenhower's staff from D-day in Normandy to V-E day. ¶ Lewis Gruber, 60, was named the fourth president in four years for P. Lorillard Co. (Old Gold, Kent). His predecessor, William J. Halley...