Word: showings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first as a wartime infantry captain, then as Assistant Secretary, and later as Under Secretary of the Army in charge of procurement of everything from Flit guns to tanks. Last week, President Truman decided that at 40, slim, sandy-haired Gordon Gray had learned enough to run the whole show. He nominated Gray to succeed fellow North Carolinian Kenneth C. Royall as Secretary of the Army...
...understandable English, the above is a request for three law students to participate in the "Blind Date" television show. On the program they will compete with the budding sawboneses from Ithaca for the privilege of squiring some lovelies on an expense-paid blind date...
Last week, after a nationwide survey of 1,776 companies, Manhattan's hardheaded Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. predicted that all U.S. sales for the second half of 1949 will show an average decline of only 3.3% under 1948's record total. The group surveyed did not expect more than a drop of 3.6% in profits on the average-ranging from 5.1% for the durable goods companies and 4.2% for the wholesalers, to 3.6% for the retailers and only 2.5% for the non-durables...
...legislation, said O'Mahoney, would provide no "loophole fof monopolistic practices." But it would require FTC to provide clear proof whenever it suspected that freight absorption had lessened competition. (At present the FTC can cite businessmen for conspiracy and then put the burden of proof on them to show that the absorption of freight charges has not hurt competition...
Early returns on a CRIMSON poll indicate that the Faculty believes Communists should not be allowed to teach at colleges. The first 182 answers to the same questionnaire distributed to students last Friday show a two to one vote against permitting such teachers to hold positions in any branch of the faculty...