Word: ranges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mushroomed from one plant in 1898 to 55 factories, eight tanneries, a rubber plant and a cotton mill, with 35,000 employees and 12,000 stockholders. International Shoe, which makes 10% of all U.S. shoes (48 million pairs last year), has never been in the red. Last year it rang up sales of $190 million, profits of $7.6 million...
Last week, the sound of hammering and building rang across the windswept slopes above New Zealand's Island Bay. Workmen were busy on a tomb for the woman who may some day be canonized as the first woman saint of the South Pacific-Suzanne Aubert de Laye, known to the church as Mother Marie Joseph Aubert...
...Messrs. Shubert tightened their hold on what remained. About 14 months ago, the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust division set FBI agents poking through the Shuberts' files, buttonholing show people in the rabbit warrens of Broadway casting offices. Last week Attorney General J. Howard McGrath rang up the curtain on a little drama of his own. In Manhattan's federal district court he slapped on a civil suit charging the Messrs. Shubert with monopolizing the U.S. theater in violation of the antitrust law. For good measure, he also sued Marcus Heiman, joint owner with the Shuberts...
...pace of the game was so great at the end that the teams failed to hear the final buzzer until it rang for twenty seconds. When they did stop, the BC players whacked their sticks down on the ice with disappointment, and the Crimson squad mobbed goalie Johnny Chase, who played clearly the finest game of his career in the nets...
...Quitan-dinha Hotel at Petropolis, Baby stepped to the door, blew a shrill blast on a police whistle. As the guests scampered out, Baby tipped his straw hat to them. Another time, when he visited New York, he booked a suite of eight rooms in a Park Avenue hotel, rang up various girl friends and gave a continuous house party...