Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louisiana State (4-0)-crushed Miami's rugged defenses in the second half for a 27-3 victory...
...territory or Brinkley's. What they turn out ranks high not only with Nielsen but also with official Washington. Asked by a survey agency last August to name their favorite news program, members of Congress gave Huntley-Brinkley Report top rank (32.8% v. 16.1% for the second choice, ABC's John Daly). In a personal note, Viewer Dwight Eisenhower told Huntley that his telecasts in advance of the Khrushchev visit were a major factor in determining the official U.S. approach...
...industry were finally showing some bare spots. Manufacturing and trade inventories at the end of August stood at $89.4 billion, a decline of $400 million from the previous month. Commerce Department experts predicted that inventories, which had been building up at an annual rate of $9.8 billion in the second quarter, would be cut so sharply that the rate may drop by more than $10 billion in the third quarter. Chiefly because of the depletion in inventories, they expect the gross national product to skid $5 billion in the third quarter, perhaps preventing the G.N.P. from reaching the half-trillion...
Despite the backlog of work, the SEC is still expanding its operations. To educate investors to the dangers of phony promotions, the commission has been sending out posters describing the work of boiler-room operators. Now it is preparing 15-and 30-second shorts for radio and TV, warning about stock-market swindlers. Says SEC's Windels: "Fraudulent promoters can do their work so fast that the SEC often cannot stop initial damage. But if the public is warned, then these crooks have far less room to work...
Married. Billy Martin, 31, Cleveland Indians second baseman; and Gretchen Ann Winkler, 24, Trans World Airlines hostess; in Las Vegas...