Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed Orpheus fountain in Stockholm was finished in 1936 by Carl Emil Andersson Milles, Sweden's greatest living sculptor. In 1931, in his third year as resident sculptor at Detroit's suburban Cranbrook Academy, Sculptor Milles met Alderman Aloe's widow in St. Louis and learned her desire for a group of fountains in Aloe Plaza. In 1936 Mrs. Aloe put up $12,500, the city of St. Louis put up $47,500, and Sculptor Milles was commissioned to do for St. Louis what he had done for Stockholm...
Mariana Michalska (Gilda Gray), oldtime U. S. shimmy shaker, who fortnight ago divorced her third husband, told Manhattan reporters she would soon join an expedition to study tribal dances in Asia, Africa, Iran and India
...extension of SEC's rules on short-selling to odd as well as round lots. In January, SEC forbade short sales except at a price at least | of a point above the last transaction; odd lots-less than 100 shares-were specifically exempted. Before long almost a third of all odd-lot business was in short sales. The seven odd-lot firms on the floor agreed that something should be done. The governing committee of the Exchange drew up the new rule one morning, notified SEC at noon, had it approved by the governors in the afternoon. SEC Chairman...
...Motors, G. M. A. C., General Motors Sales Corp., Alfred P. Sloan Jr., William S. Knudsen, and 17 other General Motors and G. M. A. C. executives. Second was against Chrysler Corp., Chrysler Sales Corp., Dodge, De Soto, Plymouth, Commercial Credit Co., and 18 executives, including Walter P. Chrysler. Third was against Edsel Ford, Ford Motor Co., Universal Credit Corp. and twelve more executives. Maximum penalty for conviction on the indictments of violating the Sherman Act is $5,000 or a year in jail, or both. But the case is not likely to go before a jury until October...
Toward the last third of the journal, when Homer is in his 40s, he begins reading Sherwood Anderson, Dreiser, Hemingway, confesses that his "whole attitude toward literature is undergoing a renascence." When, despite his sobered new outlook, he continues right up to his sudden end to be almost as dumb as ever, most readers will call his story a libel on even the most fatuous of would-be novelists...