Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trieste the Cominform had publicly pointed a pistol at Tito, and cocked it with a click the world could hear. The man with the gun was thickset, rasp-voiced Vittorio Vidali, Cominform boss in Trieste. He had spent a quarter century in the Communist underground. Wherever he went, murder followed...
Yankee Dash. On the first play after the kickoff in the third quarter, Hunchy plunged off tackle, sprinted 60 yards before a Yankee nailed him. On the 27-yard line, the Yankees held. The Dodgers tried another field goal, but the Yankees blocked it. From then on, Rickey got the kind of speed he liked to see-but it was all done by the rival Yankees, in particular by Spec Sanders, Negro Buddy Young, and a Negro rookie named Tom Casey. Casey raced 94 yards to a touchdown, coolly pointing out to his blockers, a threatening Dodger safety man halfway...
...perforator, Lane-Wells has increased the yield of U.S. wells by an estimated $200 million. Last week, with demand for oil at a peak, the company was booming as never before. For five consecutive months, it has grossed more than $1,000,000 a month. With a second-quarter net of $1,143,200, Lane-Wells was earning around $6 a share, about four times its prewar rate...
Rush Season, in Mexico City, Factory Manager Emilio Checa addressed a quarter-page newspaper ad to Teléfonos de Mexico: "Forty days ago we reported our telephone out of order. Won't you please have something done...
Erskine Caldwell, chronicler of the seamy side of the Southern woes, is the leading bestseller-novelist in the world.* Quarter reprints of his God's Little Acre, Tobacco Road, Trouble in July and others have pushed the sales of his books above 9,000,000 copies. Perhaps some of his appeal is to hunters of the salacious: it is possible to read his novels as if they were extended dirty jokes. But the Caldwell of these early novels and stories had real talent besides...