Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Venezuela's political future seemed bright, the dark state of the world shadowed the nation's remarkable financial status. The basis of its prosperity has been the fact that since oil began to gush there in 1912 it has become the world's third greatest producer (No. 1 the U. S., No. 2 Russia). Other potentially big resources, such as gold, diamonds, iron have never had much attention. Venezuela pays for its imports mostly with oil royalties, import duties, wages, taxes. Before World War II, about 60% of its oil went to Europe. But today Venezuela sees...
...distinctly wanting in peace, gave Japan's men of influence occasion to consider the Japanese Empire carefully. They knew it as a sum total of many factors: a set of islands where 70,000,000 people live almost literally elbow to elbow; a low standard of living; the third biggest Navy in the world; a ragged but dogged Army (1,125,000 men in the field, 6,000,000 trained, partly trained and untrained eligibles to draw upon); an economy of trade which according to all the rules ought to have collapsed long ago; two pushy nations for allies...
...weeks' to 23 years' standing. Dr. Raab focused the X-rays for a few seconds over each kidney, gave every patient three irradiations on each gland. After an interval of two to four months Dr. Raab gave some of them a second treatment, later even a third. He was careful not to irradiate the adrenals too much, for that might cause general weakness, low blood pressure, brown skin. The patients were allowed no other treatment except small quantities of nitroglycerin to lower blood pressure...
...lately paraded between the covers of successful books. Now it appears that the preacher, a still older and more vital part of small-town U. S. life, is to have his turn as a best seller-for last week the lively, human story of Parson Spence went into its third printing. Reader's Digest picked it for its December book abridgement, and in Hollywood Warner Bros, rushed work on a movie script to add to its string of screen biographies...
Married. Harold Wallace Ross, 48, editor of The New Yorker; and Arianne Allen, 25, blonde model, of Beverly Hills, Calif.; she for the first time, he for the third; at Roselle Park...