Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...succeeded Dwight Eisenhower as Chief of Staff. Over the years Omar Bradley, the man who never raised his voice, never mixed in service feuds, had won the solid admiration of everybody from plain soldiers (who called him the doughboys' general) to Government bureaucrats, to his fellow generals. The Third Army's brilliant, fractious George Patton, one of his subordinates, once told him: "Between my screwy ideas and your brains, we certainly come up with some wonderful plans...
Blue Neon Sign. The Communist-Socialist coalition, which has ruled San Marino since 1945, has kept the voters happy and free of worry about Satan by devoting one-third of its budget to WPA-style public works. This year, with its credit exhausted and the budget at a record 530 million lire ($923,500), the government desperately needed money to meet a new 200 million lire deficit...
...miners, it seemed, were not the only beneficiaries. Of the fund's three trustees, Miss Roche disclosed casually, two are drawing a lush $35,000 a year each (the equivalent of 35 miners' death benefits) for their services. The third trustee, U.M.W. Chief John L. Lewis, accepts no fee but gets a union salary of $50,000 plus an unlimited annual expense account...
...United Fruit Co., whose banana plantings cover a third of the valley, had had better luck with its rainmaking methods. The company's Texas-bred pilot, stocky Joe M. Silverthorne, did the trick by dropping Dry Ice pellets into passing clouds...
...usable front half of each hog's pituitary is about the size of a pea. It takes 1,360 of them to make a pound, from which about 1½ grams (a third of a teaspoonful) of ACTH can be extracted in a solution and separated as a fluffy, white powder. The process is remarkably simple. But even with the cooperation of non-Armour stockyards, the Armour Laboratories can get so far only about 125,000 hog pituitaries a week-enough to make five ounces of ACTH. All the hogs slaughtered in the U.S. would not yield much more...