Word: three
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many a businessman the latest increase, smaller than the preceding three, was hardly a surprise. But in Washington, it stirred up Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, who had not been at all critical while the Steelworkers were after their wage boost last summer. Cried he: "The steel industry is not justified in levying an increased tax on the whole economy of the U.S." Its leaders, he said, are doing more damage "to the free-enterprise system than all the crackpots have ever done." To get an explanation, O'Mahoney asked Ben Fairless to appear before a congressional...
Under the smooth promotional hand of Pillsbury Mills, Inc., 100 top amateur U.S. cooks competed last week in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in a $70,-ooo prize baking contest. With 100 electric ranges set up on the ballroom floor, the cooks-97 women and three men-donned aprons and went to work. All day, under the watchful gaze of judges, the hopefuls produced such culinary delights as golden glow cake, black & white pie and glorified cherry upside-down cake...
Minute Maid Corp., one of the first companies to market frozen orange juice, last week became the owner of its own fruit groves. For $5,000,000, it bought 4,700 acres of orange and grapefruit groves near its three processing plants in Florida from Di Giorgio Fruit Corp., one of the biggest U.S. fruit growers...
Bride for Sale (RKO Radio) is a tired old triangle farce in which three veterans crank out the creaking whimsy. As a high-powered tax consultant, Claudette Colbert spends her days poring through income-tax forms looking for a home-loving rich husband. To keep her in his employ, George Brent sneaks into her files some data on wealthy Robert Young, who is in on the conspiracy to discourage her. The drawing room dither that follows shows everyone falling for Claudette, but nobody very happy about it. Claudette, who appears to be slumming in her farce role, allows herself...
...seven tricycles. In Franklin, La., a 14-year-old ninth-grader was arrested for cashing two checks she had made out as an arithmetic assignment. In Roanoke, Va., Sherman Lovelace, facing charges of illegally wearing a Navy uniform and possessing an Army discharge, was convicted of polygamy (three wives...