Word: quarter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Prejudice." She wrote from "misinformation, ignorance or prejudice," he said. He would have ignored her "personal attack," but she had continued her "anti-Catholic campaign." Now "your misstatements should be challenged in every quarter of our country where they have already spun and spread their web of prejudice...
Hildebrandt now has a card index of 12,000 of the estimated quarter-million men, women & children who have "disappeared" in eastern Germany since 1945. In another file he keeps 7,000 requests for information on people who have "disappeared...
...they still looked healthy. The General Electric Co., which had been among the first big companies to cut prices and had already felt the sales slump in household appliances, was possibly a bellwether of how good "normal" might be. G.E.'s President Charles Wilson reported a second-quarter net of $19.8 million, down 32% from the same 1948 period. However, profit was more than 100% above G.E.'s earnings of ten years ago. By such a prewar comparison, the current "recession" looked fairly prosperous...
...Shriners' annual conventions are one noisy manifestation of a quiet and widespread U.S. phenomenon. Fraternal societies, which dwindled during the depression and war, have flourished anew. This year they occupy a good deal of the leisure time of almost a quarter of the country's adult population...
...Curland, had attended an auction of Louis B. Mayer horses. Curland quit bidding on Solidarity at $20,000, but when his daughter said, "Daddy, I want that horse," he went to $21,000 and got him. By winning the Gold Cup (and equaling Seabiscuit's mile-and-a-quarter track record of 2:01 1/5), Solidarity added $100,000 to his earnings and paid his backers a generous...