Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stutterers are at their worst when embarrassed by normally fluent people; they do better with other stutterers, for then they have no sense of inferiority. Because a stutterer who has almost conquered the handicap serves as an encouragement, much speech practice is done in groups. About a third of the hospital's staff are former patients: they, better than anyone else, understand the problem...
...result: Joyce footwear that sells in the U.S. for $2.95 to $10.95 sells for only a little more in Britain, which is about half the price of competing models of equal quality. By combining quality and economy, Joyce has built his foreign income until it accounts for about one-third of his gross, by shrewd arrangements collects it in dollars. "What I am exporting," says Joyce, "is technique...
...chunks of wool's summer suit market. Now rayon was getting ready to compete in winter wear as well. Mooresville Mills announced that it had developed a winter-weight rayon that looked and felt like wool, had the advantage of being mothproof, washable and only about one-third the price of wool...
...deal gave Kaiser a permanent place in the U.S. aluminum industry with a totally integrated operation from mine to mill. It also assured Permanente of its ranking as the nation's third largest aluminum producer, with a primary capacity of 130,000 tons v. Reynolds Metals Co.'s 190,000 tons and the Aluminum Co. of America's 275,000 tons...
Born. To Princess Shigeko (called Teru no Miya: Shining Highness) Higashi-Kuni, 23, eldest of Emperor Hirohito's six children, and Prince Morihiro Higashi-Kuni, 33, eldest son of Japan's surrender Premier, Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni: their third child, second son (Hirohito's third grandchild); in the imperial household's private hospital, Tokyo. Weight: 7 lbs. 13.7 oz. Name: undisclosed...