Word: third
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...receiving the certificate in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Hotel. CAA inspectors were probing through the blackened wreckage of the crash. The year ended in far less embarrassing fashion for Braniff. Last week Braniff Airways offered the public 150,000 shares of common stock at $10 a share. A third was sold from the personal holdings of Tom Braniff and he got the proceeds. The rest (about $817,000) will be used for new equipment: 21-passenger Douglas DC35s. The issue was well oversubscribed...
...spurred boom of late 1939, it was a Page One story. For last week's steel production rate had sunk to a dismal 60.7% from the 90%-plus of last October-December. And on the Stock Exchange, U. S. Steel was stranded around 55, down one-third from last September when Hitler's mechanized army was mopping up Poland...
There are only four makers of military optical instruments in the U. S. One is Kollmorgen (of Brooklyn), which concentrates on periscopes. Another is Keuffel & Esser (of Hoboken, N. J.), which makes range finders, trench periscopes. A third is Spencer-Lens Co., scientific instrument subsidiary of American Optical Co. The fourth is Bausch & Lomb (of Rochester, N. Y.), which makes binoculars, range finders, periscopes, about 50% of all the military optical goods sold...
Strange Cargo (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is The Passing of the Third Floor Back, laid in Devil's Island and environs instead of in a cheap London lodging-house. Tall, bland, humorous-eyed Ian Hunter is the Christlike central figure. The tangled lives he sets right are not those of petty, shabby, roominghouse misfits, but such splendid votaries of violence as Clark Gable (Convict Verne), Joan Crawford (a fille de joie wearing Miss Crawford's best Oh-God-the-pity-of-it facial), Paul...
Harvard's early season batting order will probably see third baseman Rob Fulton lead off, followed by Macdonald in center field, Buckley at second, Levett in right, Pitchford in left. Still Tally at first, Keyes at short, Regan catching, and Healey. Clay, and Brackett doing the hurling...