Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the past ten days alone, more than 200 applications for fall housing have been filed by married students, Donald K. Hathaway of Hunneman and Company disclosed. Mrs. W. A. Lowry of the Room Registry office in Phillips Brooks House added that as many as 60 persons a day have been inquiring about furnished rooms...
Divorced. James Hilton, 46, plumpish, British-born, best-selling novelist (Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Lost Horizon) turned Hollywood writer; by onetime Actress Galina Kopineck Hilton, 44 (who told the court: ". . . He could argue much better than I could"); after ten years, no children; in Los Angeles...
...present steel shortage is largely due to demands that accumulated during the war and that, once satisfied, will slack off. Moreover, the shortage would be intensified by removing from present supply the five million tons of steel it would take to build plants to produce the new capacity of ten million tons...
...took $4.7 billion of private capital to build the industry's 80 million-ton prewar capacity. It cost $2.5 billion to add 15 million tons during the war. At present prices, it would probably cost another $2.5 billion to add another ten million tons. Such costs, argues the industry, would force the high price of steel still higher...
Million-Dollar Baby. Gimbels reported that Baby Sparkle Plenty, a doll version of one of Chester Gould's comic-strip improbables, was smashing all sales records. Sales reached 15,100 (at $6 per head) in the first ten days, were expected to exceed $1,000,000 in retail value by Christmas. "Simply phenomenal," said the doll's proud parent, the Ideal Novelty & Toy Co., Inc. "It appears that sales of this one doll in the five remaining months of the year will exceed the output of the entire doll industry for any year in the past two decades...