Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...similar suggenstion from a different quarter, see Business
...what Christmas Week was like this year, I toured the holy places. I started at Jerusalem's Old City. Unlike old-time pilgrims, I needed an armed escort of British police. We entered at Jaffa Gate, headed down through the ancient Jewish quarter, where for ten days the Arabs had besieged some 3,500 Jews. Sniping still goes on day & night...
Empty Houses; As we walked down the narrow, cobblestoned, smelly streets, our footsteps clattered loudly. At the sound frightened faces pressed against windows, were reassured by the uniforms. Along Jews Street, the quarter's center, only a few shops were open. Life in the Jewish quarter had ground to a shuddering halt as Arab violence flared up at the announcement of Palestine's partition. Those Jews whom we did see clung closely to their doorsteps, ready to flee inside at the slight est warning. The only Jew oblivious to it all was a turbaned Moorish...
...Cohu merged TWA's four regional headquarters into one office and trimmed the airline's swollen staff of 15,000 by 13%. As costs went down and traffic rose, TWA's deficit was turned into a profit of $202,000 in this year's second quarter...
...profit rose to $884,000 in the third quarter, promising a gross business of $78,000,000 in 1947 (against $57,000,000 last year). That started Cohu thinking about new planes. Last week, about ten months after Frye left, TWA ordered twelve new Connies. The line's once bad credit had improved enough so that some 14 banks put up the $15,000,000 to pay for them. TWA had not yet flown through all the rough weather. But the air was smoother than it had been for years...