Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each week, some 10,000 admirers (zealously cheered on by her studio's press-agents) take the trouble to write Betty fan mail. For six years U.S. theater managers have ranked her among the top ten in box-office pull...
Last week the papers prepared to break with their past. In mid-September, they will move to an ultramodern new building (ten blocks below the Mason-Dixon line). In the same week Editor Wallace will retire. In a sense, both departures are overdue. The new plant, budgeted to cost $3,000,000, has already eaten up $7,000,000 and will open 18 months late. And at 73, "Uncle Tom" Wallace is eight years past the paper's retirement...
...ten years Republic had upped production from 700,000 to 1,400,000 tons a year, or one-sixth of all Republic's needs. Republic thought the day was not too distant when all its steel would be made from Adirondack ores. Its Adirondack ore reserves were big enough to keep the company in pig iron for 50 years...
...have spent more than $40 million to develop Adirondack mines. Adirondack ores are costlier to dig, but have a richer iron content than those from Minnesota's famed Mesabi range, which still supplies the U.S. with 83% of all its iron. Steelmen, who know that Mesabi has only ten years of high-grade ore production left, think New York's old iron mining country is finally coming into...
Airports. The Port of New York Authority bought New Jersey's 500-acre, ten-hangar Teterboro Air Terminal. This closed the last escape hatch for airlines that objected to the Authority's landing fees at Idlewild and hoped to take off on transatlantic flights from Teterboro (TIME, July 12). Price: $3,115,000. Teterboro's owner, Frederick L. Wehran, got the property...