Word: inch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan last week, the cotton men reported on the first seven months of the selling drive. It was far rosier than expected. Monthly sales for 37-inch sheeting, the most widely used bagging, had more than doubled-to 6,370,000 yards. Far from satisfied, the cotton men hoped to reach the 15,550,000-yard mark for 37-inch sheeting before long, and have their market...
Skiing was labeled "fair" to "good" and "excellent" all the way north from Amesbury (skiing "excellent") to Mont Tremblant in Canada (35 inch base, nine inches powder...
...instance that fish in the show. I'd been wanting to do a fish for years but there were practical difficulties, you might say. This one was smoked. It lasted over a week and a half and hardly sagged at all-no more than an eighth of an inch. Draperies will move faster than that, you know, even in a very quiet atmosphere...
Columbia Records Inc., which scored a profitable beat on the rest of the industry with its long-playing records (TIME, June 8), extended its lead this week. It brought out a seven-inch, unbreakable "Microgroove" record that will play as long as a conventional twelve-incher. The new record can be played on the same attachment (33⅓ revolutions a minute) as Columbia's long-playing Microgroove record. Another advantage is that it will sell for considerably less than old-style records: 63? (v. 79?) for popular recordings, and 95? (v. $1.25) for classics...
...Felton '48 took time off from the Business School this weekend to break the New York 35 pound shotput record by over a foot. His 57 foot 9 1/2 inch heave, only 10 inches short of the world's record, helped the New York Athletic Club into fourth place Saturday afternoon in the senior New York Metropolitan track championships on Columbia's wind-swept South Field...