Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Radio and television makers, who had been cutting prices only two months ago, were now energetically raising them; Emerson Radio & Phonograph, for example, boosted prices of TV sets by $10 to $30, its second price boost in 30 days. The Seiberling Rubber Co. jacked up tire prices 5% to 7½% for a total of 17% to 25% rise in the past four months. Johnson & Johnson announced an average 6½% boost in wholesale prices for much of its medical supply line, meaning that consumers soon would be paying 55? for a 49? box of Band-Aids...
...hobby-following the trail of the old Spanish conquistadors in Central and South America.* He has also alienated backers and constituents. He opposed doubling the subway fare to 10?, before the election, and afterwards, came out for it. He announced that he would not think of running for a second term, and changed his mind at the last minute...
...Boston, a few days later, dockers refused to put a second shipment of crab meat into the unloading nets. On a third ship in New York, the workers left $138,888 worth of Russian furs in the hold...
...Three Battles. In this country there are really three battles in one. The first is against the forces of Communist Ho Chi Minh. The second battle is now being prepared-an invasion abetted or led by Red China. The third battle, urgent and complex, is political, and it has to be won if the West is to establish relations with Indo-China on a sounder moral and material basis than the past lack of an Asian policy has allowed...
Born. To Brigadier General James Patrick Sinnott Devereux, U.S.M.C. (ret.), 47, commander of the 378 marines who beat off Japanese attacks on Wake Island for 14 days in December 1941, now a Republican candidate for Congress, and Rachel Clarke Cooke Devereux, fortyish, his second wife (his first wife died while he was in a Japanese prison camp): their second child (his third), a son. Name: undecided-because, said the general, "we expected a girl." Weight...