Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five years ago the possibility of any group of dress manufacturers being powerful enough to draw fire on grounds of monopoly seemed so remote as to be funny. Throughout the post-War period in which women's apparel had grown to be the sixth largest industry in the U. S., the dress trade had been chaotically innocent of any organization at all. Looking back on those days, dress manufacturers and jobbers remember only a hodgepodge of feverishly busy small houses trying to keep up with an enormously expanding market, trying to please retail buyers who demanded fresh styles...
Tonight in Sanders Theatre, the Boston Symphony is giving the sixth concert in its Cambridge series. The program, composed of numbers previously played in Boston, consists of Haydn's Symphony in E flat no. 99, Faure's "Elegie" for Cello and Orchestra, Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole", and the preludes "Lohengrin," "Tristan und Isolde," and "Die Meistersinger". The second half should certainly satisfy Wagner devotees; the first bears especial tribute the Dr. Koussevitzky's skill in program-making...
...next week. At 2, Art Beane, although the lightest man in the boat, handled a nice oar, as did Len Eliel at 3. To take care of Varsity candidates who did not get into the first four eights, another crew will be named today and perhaps a sixth tomorrow...
...Senator Borah. That helped even less. Third place (13.2%) went to Colonel Frank Knox. Publisher Knox declined to take the risk. Fourth place (4.1%) went to Herbert Hoover. Mr. Hoover was not even asked. Fifth place (2.9%) went to Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan. He asked to be excused. Sixth place (.6%) to Senator Lester Dickinson of Iowa, who said no thanks...
...their 483 managers, or with St. Paul's Butler Brothers, one of the few remaining independent iron mining companies in the U. S. Operating in Minnesota's ore-laden Mesabi and Guyana Ranges, this Butler Brothers was founded by five sons of an Irish immigrant father. The sixth son is U. S. Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler...