Word: range
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only 30. As the day wore on, party headquarters in Transport House began to worry. Worry soon turned into panic. By 4 p.m., Labor ran one seat ahead of the Conservatives. Only South London's staunchly Socialist Clapham had not been heard from. At 4:01 the phone rang. The party worker who answered it turned pale. "Clapham's gone!" he cried...
...newspapers across the U.S. In New York, Hearst's tabloid Daily Mirror offered $200 in prizes for the best letters of advice to Mrs. H. In three days, 3,000 letters from every state and Canada flooded into the Oklahoman's city rooms; the telephones rang constantly with long-distance callers. Four out of ten letter-writers advised Mrs. H. to seek comfort in God; one letter suggested consolation in whisky. Hundreds urged Mrs. H. to invest her money in ventures ranging from a dog-mange remedy to a sure-fire system for playing the horses...
...reinforced sales force of 200 (normal: 25) was washed aside by the tide of bargain hunters. The hunters fought their way to the racks and crawled over them like Japanese beetles on a bush. By 11 o'clock, the racks were stripped bare. Filene's rang up an estimated $65,000 in sales and, to boot, had netted an inestimable amount in good-will advertising...
...American paid no dividends on common stock. Then, as 10,000,000 ex-servicemen rushed to buy their first civvies, American Woolen found itself so prosperous that in 1946 it declared a $12 common dividend, saw its stock soar from 29½ to 70¾. In 1948, it rang up the biggest sales ($197 million) in its history and earned $15.88 per share. But now, said Pendleton, American Woolen, like other weavers, was in a double squeeze that was choking off sales...
...incident last summer contradicts Mullins' claim: While I was in the office of the Herald's political columnist, his phone rang, and Mullins identified the caller as Choate. The topic of conversation appeared to be Mullins' treatment of the Robert Bradford-Sinclair Weeks split at the Republican Convention. Weeks, a perusal of old Heralds may convince you, did not come off too well in Mullins' columns in the immediate end-of-convention period. As soon as Mullins hung up he went into Choate's office, and did not return for half an hour...