Word: recently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Niles Trammell had a job of explaining to do. In recent months, CBS had charmed away five of his top attractions (Jack Benny, Amos 'n' Andy, Red Skelton, Frank Sinatra, Edgar Bergen), beat him to a big sixth (Bing Crosby). NBC had lost talent to Columbia before, but never in such great clumps. The network's 164 affiliated stations were uneasy and fidgety...
...industry grew fast, but Love's company grew faster. He kept buying small new plants (he now has 81), thus kept abreast of the industry's improvements without too big an outlay. Rayon's recent rate of growth has far exceeded both wool and cotton. Since 1940 the rayon industry has grown 238%, Burlington's sales have risen...
...Deal. The Long Island's troubles were caused by: 1) poor management; 2) the preponderance of passenger traffic over money-making freight traffic; and 3) the recent rise in operating costs. Never a rich road (it had gone bankrupt twice before), it had nevertheless managed to make money between...
...Citing recent statements of both Stalin and the Pope to back his thesis, Reinhold Niebuhr, noted professor at the Union Theological Seminary, cautioned a standing-room-only congregation at Memorial Church yesterday of the dangers of "spiritual wickedness in high places...
...second Yale game was rough, confusing, and played on the New Haven Arena's pencil-shaped ice surface, but it followed fairly closely the pattern of most recent Crimson games. The team played uncoordinated, indecisive hockey for two periods, then caught fire in the final 20 minutes and turned a close game (it was tied three all at the beginning of the third period) into a rout...