Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ushering in a theatre, began using narcotics with her, left home to become a pimp. For 20 years he circulated around U. S. and European cities, working successively as a shoplifter, pickpocket, confidence man. He was sent to prison three times for a total of five years. Between his third release and his death in 1933, he had several legitimate jobs, one of which was writing his book on a weekly wage from the University of Chicago's Social Science Research Committee...
...Venetian courtesan in The Tales of Hoffmann, I looked for all the world like one of Casanova's memoirs. . . . Thunderous applause and generous bravos (some of these, I suspect, for my extremely feminine thighs and legs, well shown off by smooth. skin-tight trunks in my third-act costume.... I knew that four of my beaus were in the audience. Each one had carefully let me know where he would be sitting. The impulse to play a little joke on them all was too much for me. As the opera went on, I proceeded to sing passionately to each...
...Steel's third quarter earnings were $30,617,638 compared to $36,173,682 for the previous quarter and $13,636,177 for the third quarter of 1936.* Said the corporation's statement: "Demand for steel products during July, August and September showed a gradual decline in volume each month.... Operations for the third quarter as measured by finished product output averaged 73.6% of total capacity, compared with 88.4% in the previous quarter and 63.6% in the third quarter of 1936.... In recent weeks a rather marked falling off in shipments to customers occurred, resulting in an October...
...retired most of Big Steel's funded debt, thereby reducing fixed charges some $30,000,000 annually and preparing the company to run the gauntlet of Depression. Second point on Myron Taylor's program was a vast modernization and expansion of plant, now nearing completion. Third point was the merger of two subsidiaries, Carnegie and Illinois Steels. Fourth was the revitalizing of Big Steel with young executive blood...
...World production: 10,000,000,000 Ib. per year (of which the U. S. makes and uses about one-third...