Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Under Van Sweringen control, she became a respectably operated road. But her capital structure never really recovered from Jay Gould's attentions, and she never again paid a dividend on the common. In 1938 Erie chugged into receivership (whither eleven Class I roads had preceded her) for the fourth time...
...poor party" is a New York institution. So is Joe Madden. Born Joseph Augustin Penzo, son of an Italian baker "who was O.K. except all his life he never possessed change of a quarter," Joe grew up on Manhattan's tough West Side. When he was in the fourth grade, he hit his teacher "on the francis" with an eraser because she laughed at the way he spelled Philadelphia. When the truant officers found him, ten days later, he was sent to reform school. There he met an Irish kid named Frankie Madden, leader of the Itch Mob. Madden...
Birthday. Britain's George VI, his 45th, observed "somewhere in the country" with his Queen and two daughters, but-because of rationing-without his usual plum cake at tea. Official celebration waits till June, when colors can be trooped with better prospect of sunshine. Last week the fourth anniversary of his accession to Edward YIU's throne occurred...
...highest scoring affair this season for the Feslermen and the fourth straight victory in a thus far undefeated record. Top point getters for the Crimson were Bill Webber and Ed Buckley with 12 each, Bud Finegan with eight, and Joe Romano with seven...
...excellent brand of basketball which the Feslermen have displayed continues, they should have little trouble emerging with their fourth victory of the season tonight. If the team can cast off some of its extra-cautiousness so apparent against Wesleyan, tonight's contest may turn out to be a real highscoring affair...