Word: ups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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On the last day, as amazed as anybody at their success, two dark horses met as finalists. Rufus King and Charlie Coe had grown up nine miles from each other across the Texas-Oklahoma line, but were playing golf together for the first time.
Charlie Coe, the tournament's thin man (6 ft. 1 in., 135 lbs.), is an insurance broker from Ardmore, Okla. A more ardent golfer than King (he has twice won the Trans-Mississippi crown), 25-year-old Finalist Coe was the favorite as he squared off on the first...
After the first 18 holes, Coe was five-up.
The Federal Reserve Board hauled down a storm signal last week. Ever since last November its production index, one of the barometers of U.S. business, had been skittering down. It had dropped 33 points to 162 in July, indicating a 17% fall in overall U.S. production. Last week FRB reckoned...
The rate of industrial layoffs had slacked considerably. In the latest week, said the Labor Department, new claims for jobless benefits totaled only 251,000, the lowest for any week since last November. Department store sales, hard hit by the hot summer, had also perked up a bit; retailers saw...