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...last returns trickled in this week, from backwoods counties where Lee O'Daniel is strongest, Roosevelt's Johnson was still leading. But his margin was so fabulously small-77 out of a total of 566,551 votes counted-that it could be considered virtually a dead heat. Although Texas law considers a plurality of one vote sufficient in a special election, the Election Bureau took it for granted that a recount would be demanded, that it might be weeks before Texas knew the winner...
...Many an Eastern commuter had seen idle cars on sidings. Their lessors pointed out that there was always a surplus of tank cars at this time of year, waiting for the normal summer rush. If the oil & chemical companies had a comfortable car margin, they were luckier-or more farsighted-than most shippers...
...went to work on her Republican opponent, A. Charles Stewart. Her campaign was simple and personal. She would stop people on the street and say: "I'm Katharine Byron, and I'd appreciate your vote." When the ballots were in, she had a slim 1,200-vote margin, out of some 50,000 cast...
...rose Charles Wetmore Kellogg, president of Edison Electric Institute and $1-a-year power man for 0PM. He declared that present U.S. generating capacity allowed for a 20% margin of safety, is adequate for all defense and civilian needs. Tired of needling by the Federal Power Commission, which has predicted a power shortage ever since 1934, he remarked: "Power shortages estimated by public bodies have generally been at a time in the future so distant that they have been eliminated by new construction before the time arrived." E.E.I, foresaw an increase of installed capacity to 48,000,000 kilowatts...
Finishing in the black by a very wide margin for the first time in its history, the Union Committee has spent its $160 profit of the year for a combination radio and record player, new records for the Union Record Library, and additional books for the Library...