Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final or fourth-quarter figures on the national income, bank deposits, department store sales,etc., which would not be released until after the year's end, Business & Finance had to go directly to the sources (the Federal Reserve Board, the Bureau of the Budget, the Departments of Commerce, Agriculture, Treasury in Washington, etc.). Figures for the last few months were very important this year because of diminishing department store sales and price cuts, which indicated a change in the economy. Otherwise very little querying was necessary beyond a check-up on Detroit's auto industry and the layoffs...
...Year's Eve in Tel Aviv wound up with a bang. As celebrants of the foreign colony danced the New Year in at seaside hotels, two Egyptian corvettes, which had slipped up the coast in the dark, opened fire on the city. Israeli shore batteries fired back. A quarter of an hour later, as Israeli planes roared out to attack, the corvettes slunk off to the south...
...order to be deferred beyond the freshman year of college, a student would have to stand in the upper half of the freshman class. Sophomores would have to rank in the top third of their class to be deferred, and juniors would have to be in the highest quarter...
Subtraction. The Railroad Commission of Texas, which governs state oil production, ordered oil men to cut output 10% in January. The reason: estimated demand in the first quarter next year will be 190,000 bbls. a day below present levels...
...Quarter Salesman. When he went down to his Detroit haberdashery one day when it was closed, Louis Dean Kilgore had trouble shaking off the window shoppers who wanted to follow him in. Disturbed over the business he was obviously losing in off-hours, "Red" Kilgore last week set up a coin-operated salesman in his front window. By inserting a quarter in it, an off-hour window shopper can verbally order any item on display, have his name, address and phone number recorded on a tape inside. Next morning, store clerks transcribe the tape, recheck with customers by phone...