Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gave River Saga a steady flow of hummable melodies and pounding rhythms that hit his West Virginia audience right where they lived. One woman who had traveled 36 miles from Gauley Bridge to hear the premiere was pleased as punch with the third section, which described the stretch where the upper branches of the Kanawha join forces, roar over Kanawha Falls. "There's a song I've heard every day of my life on the river," said she. "You can hear it right in the music...
Then, says Urey, the light stone core began to float up through the iron like a tennis ball through molasses. As it approached the surface, land appeared for the first time; the oceans were crowded to one side, as on the third day of biblical creation.* For a while the earth had only a single continent (Pangea), but the continuing rise of the core material and its spreading out near the surface broke Pangea into chunks and carried them apart. His theory, says Urey, accounts for the remarkable fact, first pointed out by Alfred Wegener in his theory of continental...
...market's rise was not as gravity-defying as it looked. It was solidly shored up by 1) the whopping third-quarter profits of many a corporation, and 2) an increasing tendency to pass some of these profits along to stockholders in the form of bigger dividends. Chrysler, for example, which had turned in a third-quarter net of $45.4 million v. $24.1 million in the 1948 period, raised its $1.25 quarterly dividend to $1.50. The stock went up 2⅛ points in the next day's trading, to a new 1949 high...
Cutbacks. With production at a peak, General Motors pushed third-quarter sales to $1,580,405,459, up 32%. Its quarterly profit of $198.7 million v. $120.3 million in the 1948 quarter was the biggest in corporation history. In expectation of an extra dividend, G.M. stock rose to a new 1949 high of 68. But General Motors' President Charles E. Wilson and Chrysler's President K. T. Keller both warned that the steel strike had hurt even if it should end this week...
...Louis, and the Bangor & Aroostook) showed a gain for the first nine months over 1948. Some were in the red (e.g., Pennsylvania's September loss of $2.7 million put it in the red for the first nine months, v. a $20.4 million profit in 1948), and a bad third quarter put all the rest down anywhere from 15% to 75% for the nine months. Among the coal companies, earnings were also down...