Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House Armed Services Committee drafted a selective service bill which, in the next two years, would build up a force close to a quarter of a million more than Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal had asked for. The draftable age group: 19 to 25. They would be used as 1) replacements, 2) to build the services up to a total of 1,944,000 men. They would be drafted for two years...
...economics at M.I.T.; Dr. Edward Mason, professor of economics at Harvard; Wayne Chatfield Taylor, onetime president of the Export-Import Bank. They said they would rally around. That was Wednesday morning. Bellboys were bringing so many telegrams to Hoffman's ninth floor Statler suite, costing Hoffman so many quarter tips, that he finally ordered all wires held at the desk until they could be brought up in bundles...
Said Sheik Yaseen el Bakri, head of some of the Old City's Arab forces: "We understand the food situation is very bad in the Jewish quarter. It will be no more than two weeks before they have to surrender. After the 15th of May, if there is no foreign interference, it will take no more than three months to solve the Palestine problem...
Only one major domestic line, Eastern Air Lines, Inc., showed a profit; but its net of $1,259,196 was only one-quarter of the year before. Pan American Airways Corp., partly because of currency restrictions (for which it had to put aside a "very substantial reserve"), turned in a profit of $2,960,000, slightly below 1946, despite a big expansion in operations...
...weather was on the Crimson side. It was cool enough to let the first midfield of Dave Abbot, Bob Lange and Paul Withington play well over half the game. In fact, the only thing to worry Coach Maddux was the failure of the defense to click during the first quarter. A time out and the insertion of Don Louria tightened up this sector so that the Hub men scored only one goal in two quarters; by that time, the Crimson had garnered a five-goal bulge...