Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Debate Council won its fourth consecutive contest last night when it defeated Boston University debaters on the subject, "Resolved: That an International Atomic Energy Commission should be established...
...pension plan, guaranteeing all 65-year-old steelworkers with 25 years of service minimum retirement pensions of $100 a month. Some would get more. This, Murray estimated, would cost Bethlehem 10? or 12½? an hour for each of its 80,000 steelworkers. In turn, the steelworkers were abandoning fourth-round wage demands for another year...
...fourth night, Carabineros Captain Oscar Cristi of Chile finally broke Mexico's winning streak. He finished the twisting, eleven-jump course in 37 seconds. 2.9 seconds less than Colonel Mariles' time, and copped the West Point Challenge Trophy. Two nights later, Captain Michael Tubridy, of the Irish team, picked up another first place. The Mexicans were undisturbed; they were so far ahead of the other teams that they had already taken time out for a graceful gesture...
...into one of the world's largest fortunes; in Port Washington, N.Y. With earnings from his share in his family's international mining interests (Alaskan copper, Chilean nitrate, Bolivian tin), Solomon donated millions to charity (mostly anonymously), in 1947 gave some $4,000,000 to establish the fourth of the famed Guggenheim foundations† which supports Manhattan's avant-garde Museum of Non-Objective Painting...
...deadline arrived, but Judy did not. Three times the studio telephoned her home. On the fourth call came the admission that Judy would not be present: she had dropped only seven pounds...