Word: third
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...President petulantly asked reporters why they persisted in asking political questions. (For news of Candidate Roosevelt, see p. 75.) Mr. Roosevelt asked the U. S., in the third week of his Third Term candidacy, to believe that he was tending strictly to his job as President. Defense was of course part of that job. So was Foreign Policy...
Meantime Governor Stark kept his end up. He denounced Truman for his link with Boss Pendergast; for playing politics he denounced the third candidate, former U. S. District Attorney Maurice Milligan, who last year sent Boss Pendergast to prison. Lincolnesque Mr. Milligan, in turn, blazed away at Truman, charged him with having won his Senate seat in 1934 with the help of 60,000 fraudulent votes dug up by Pendergast; at Stark for sticking with Pendergast until Milligan sent the boss to jail...
Even at 20% of Coca-Cola's sales, Pepsi-Cola is the sensation of the industry. From just another local brand in 1930 it has climbed to second place in the soft-drink league, more than $2,000,000 ahead of third-place Canada...
Next, Britons heard an ugly rumor (still unconfirmed because of defense regulations) that the Ebbw Vale mill, most efficient sheet mill in the British Isles, was lying one-third idle because the Steel Control Committee, a semi-official front for the Iron & Steel Federation, was giving preference in Government orders to cartel-owned mills...
Last week a third of the staff of Maxon, Inc. was working on new Lincoln-Zephyr copy at the Cabin. But their boss was busy putting up preserves. By week's end he had put up 36 pints of raspberry jelly, 16 pints of huckleberry jam, 144 pints of strawberry jam. Last year he sent a sample quart of his tomatoes to his client Howard Heinz. Heinz wired back for another quart. Rewired Maxon: "Demand so great we put up only in gallon lots...