Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Second to the Bureau of Customs team was the White House Police team, whose towering Officer Roland G. Ford had second-highest individual score for all events, 1,186 out of a possible 1,200. The Treasury's six best shots will practice in Washington until next fortnight, when they go to the national championships at Camp Perry, Ohio...
...cream consumption in seven days was 500,000 gal. above normal. No adequate figures were available on the consumption of gasoline, soft drinks, railroad tickets and many another commodity, but it was evident that extraordinary weather had made substantial losses and profits for businessmen. And last week for the second in succession, most of the U. S. east of the Rockies lay sweltering under a heat & humidity wave...
Following up the swift surprise offensive which carried across the Ebro River last fortnight to make a 240-square-mile dent in the north side of Rightist Generalissimo Franco's salient-to-the-sea, Spain's Leftists last week launched another. The second dented the south side of the salient, some 30 miles west of battered Teruel. Taking advantage of the fact that the Rightists had shipped 40,000 troops from the Teruel area to the Ebro front, bald-domed General José Miaja, commander-in-chief on the southern Leftist front, pushed his forces through thinly-held...
...Cinema Paramount 4,290,000 1,225,811 Twentieth Century-Fox (26 weeks) 3,755,483 3,419,658 d=deficit The gloominess of some of these earnings was somewhat lessened when they were broken down. General Motors, for example, made $24,786,002 in the second quarter of 1938 compared to only $8,234,017 in the first quarter. With a similar improvement from $2,109,969 in the first quarter to $3,559,631 in the second, Chrysler's President K. T. Keller reported "a rapid liquidation of dealers' stocks of new and used cars...
...told, the net for the second quarter averaged an estimated drop of 70% in corporate profits from a year ago. For the nation as a whole, the Department of Commerce reported last week, income was off 8% from the first half of 1937, to $30,630,000,000. Should income in the next six months keep this pace, the 1938 total of $61,000,000,000 will be only $8,000,000,000 less than 1937-a smaller drop than anticipated...