Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their mistress. They found her in her big bed, slumped over a book and an early edition of her paper. A heart attack had killed copper-haired Eleanor Medill Patterson, 63, the vain, shrewd, lonely, and lavishly spoiled woman who used a newspaper to speak her whims with a quarter of a million tongues...
...press, than either of its rivals. A.P. lost time by developing and transmitting its pictures at the Philadelphia Bulletin (published by A.P. President Robert McLean), a mile and a half from Convention Hall. Hearst's I.N.P. used a darkroom at the University of Pennsylvania, about a quarter of a mile away...
Right Number. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. wound up the second quarter with net earnings of $52,190,000. Thus, for the first time since 1947, it earned a full installment-and then some ($2.32) -on its regular $9 dividend...
...Quarter. But the rebel cries reached a hysterical pitch. It was clear that if Truman rammed Douglas through, he would risk a final, rending split in the party...
Less Cash. In the first quarter of 1948, according to SEC, privately held liquid assets (cash and bank accounts) fell off $4 billion, the first such decline since 1942. Meanwhile there was a $2.5 billion increase in securities holdings...