Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day he did become the ruler of the Old City, though not of the Jewish-held modern town. In the morning two aged rabbis, Clutching their, long black robes about them and waving white flags, picked their way through the rubble of the' Jewish quarter toward Zion Gate. They had come to offer surrender in the name of the Old City's little (1,500) colony of Orthodox Jews and its smaller remaining band (290) of armed defenders who had held out during five months of Arab siege, eleven days of Arab Legion attack...
...race. With the odds 1 to 10, Arcaro played his little game again with Citation, to the delight of the fans. He let other horses sneak up on him, then clucked. The gangbuster won by ten lengths-clipping if seconds off Garden State's mediocre mile-and-a-quarter track record...
Look had never looked so healthy, or been so prosperous. In the second quarter of 1948 it had sold a record $2,867,000 worth of ads, half again as much as last year. For the 13th quarter in a row, circulation was also up. With 2,910,104 (up 361,000 in a year), the picture magazine had almost caught up to Collier's (see below), currently less than 14,000 ahead...
...Gulf under William Mellon had netted an average of $25 million a year for nearly a decade. Since then it has grown into the world's fourth largest oil producer (total assets: $839 million), with holdings scattered from Venezuela to the Middle East. For the first quarter of this year, the company reported a whopping profit...
Domestic Dilemma. Britain's Board of Trade reported that Great Britain is now exporting goods to the U.S. at a rate of $264,000,000 a year, up 60% over last year and 100% over the first quarter of this year. But Britain's total imports in April rose proportionately even more, pushing her adverse balance of trade for the month to $218,000,000, highest since last fall...