Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strike, showed a significant boost in industry's plans for new plant and equipment expenditures. With more money going for industrial plants and public works, capital investment should rise to an annual rate of $35.3 billion in the final quarter of 1959. $1 billion more than the third-quarter rate and $5 billion more than a year...
...despite a whole arsenal of props and an agreeable assemblage of players, topped by TV's Tom Poston, Golden Fleecing is into the second act before it explodes into laughter. Then it expires in the third. Playwright Semple cannot solve the author's great problem of getting his people into trouble while staying out of it himself. He is too laborious tying his yarn in knots, too predictable untying it. Amid Director Abe Burrows' sharp whipcracking, there is too much forced wisecracking; amid a great many antics, there is never quite enough...
Married. Monte Blue, 72, matinee idol of silent films (So This Is Paris, White Shadows of the South Seas), more recently a bit player in movies and TV; and Portrait Painter Betty Munson Mess, 42, widowed mother of four children; both for the third time; in Los Angeles...
...bestselling Warbirds tale of his flying exploits, plus ten other books and many magazine articles. He came back to the mills in 1928, eventually earned about $250,000 from his writing. He consolidated the family properties, made good cloth, built the Springs Cotton Mills into the nation's third biggest textile maker. He made his mills represent the ultimate in good employee relations (swimming pools for the 13,000 workers, a beach resort, free junkets), his product the most racily advertised in the staid textile world. His most famed ad, captioned by himself and duly noted...
Down 6 to 0 towards the end of the third quarter, the varsity received a punt on their 27-yard line and moved steadily to a first down on the Dartmouth 37. In three plays the Crimson moved to the 29, but with fourth and two Chet Boulris was stopped by DeHaven after a gain of one yard. The advance stopped, and Dartmouth remained in control for the rest of the game...