Word: sevened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Generally optimistic views over the British action and its effects on west and East came from seven of the University's economic experts--men familiar with the problem through work with the Economic Cooperation Administration the University's Russian Research Center, and through general studies in the field of international trade. Of these men, only one was not convinced that devaluation had at least al fair chance of solving Britain's economic woes...
...election as president of the C.I.O.'s United Rubber Workers of America. Fired from the presidency after a Pottstown, Pa. local president charged him with trying to disrupt the local and fomenting a riot at one of its meetings, Conservative Buckmaster cleared himself in a seven-hour debate at the union's annual convention, then beat his perennial rival, George Bass, for another term...
...York Yankees felt more & more like the defenders of Thermopylae. After leading the league all season with the help of pitching, a lot of team courage and the wiles of Manager Casey Stengel, they were looking like warriors who were about to drop their blunted swords. They blew a seven-run lead to the inept Chicago White Sox to lose, 10-9, threw away another game to the cellar-dwelling Washington Senators, 9-8, when two Yankee infielders let an easy pop fly fall between them for a hit. This week, after losing two straight to the challenging Boston...
...Hoiles now owns seven newspapers in five states (TIME...
...about five times the outlay in 1948. At the fiscal year's end in June, the agency had $2.3 billion tied up in loans and inventories, showing a paper loss of $356 million for the year at current market prices. Most of the support money went for only seven commodities: cotton, $822 million; corn, $470 million; wheat, $640 million; flaxseed, linseed oil, $231 million; potatoes, $219 million; peanuts, $173 million; tobacco, $107 million. And the new fiscal year has opened with a bang: wheat support during July cost $63 million. For the coming crop year, the cost...