Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Class election is indicative of a problem which can only increase as time goes on. The vast majority of undergraduates come to know other students mainly through House contacts, and it is only natural that class-wide elections in which an invariably minority candidate becomes the First, Second or Third Marshal will engender more than a little bad feeling...
Russia opened her offense up to full steam as the second period began, with Guryshev scoring again at 0:16 on a screen shot from between the circles. A few minutes later, the Russian center picked up his third goal when, after Pratt had stopped his first shot from the right, he picked it up and fired through a jam-up in front of the goal to make the score...
...last week-at a high price. The line's 550 A.F.L-C.I.O. flight engineers, who went back to work after a 38-day strike, won a smashing victory. The company rescinded its earlier order that engineers must be pilot-trained to serve in jets, agreed instead to place a third pilot in its DC-8s, which will go into service next year. The line boosted the engineers' average annual pay by $1,200 to a top of $13,260, consented to an "agency shop" clause under which all engineers must pay union dues...
...selling wooden-paddle washing machines for the Pacific Power & Light Co. He went to work for Pacific Power after graduation, became such a star salesman that he was soon lured away by the Edison General Electric Appliance Co. Edison was a subsidiary of General Electric, then under its third president, brilliant, public-minded Gerard Swope, who kept the company reins firmly in his own hands. Cordiner celebrated his new job by marrying his college sweetheart. Gwyneth Lewis...
...cars 22% higher than a year ago. Ford stock rose 32 points when it predicted that dealers would add $1 billion to sales by marketing 200,000 to 400,000 more Ford cars in 1959 than in 1958. Ford's new Galaxie series is accounting for one-third of current sales, and the Ford division will increase its January production schedule of these models 15%. General Motors' Cadillac division reported that retail deliveries of Cadillacs in the first 20 days of December set a record. The Pontiac division has already produced 38% of its entire 1958 model year...