Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...inmates get to see the show. Those who think they can manage a wild bull or a horse "with a bellyful of bedsprings" take part. Each contestant gets $3 and a chance to win an additional $15 to $25 (first prize), $10 (second) or $7.50 (third) in the afternoon's eleven events. They also get a chance to wear ten-gallon hats, high-heeled boots and chaps over their white ducks (only those who have broken prison rules wear stripes...
...Newark Bears, winners of the International League playoffs: the 22nd annual Little World Series; for the third time; defeating the Louisville Colonels, winners of the American Association playoffs; four games to two; at Ruppert Stadium, Newark, N. J. Next spring, seven of Newark's biggest Bears, including Pitcher Steve Peek, who won 16 of his last 17 games, will try out with the New York Yankees, their parent club, which finished third in the American League this year...
...retail sales, one third (about $13,000,000,000 worth) are made on credit...
...largest political gatherings in history. 2. At San Francisco he said Roosevelt dynamited the 1933 London Economic Conference. 3. At Portland, Ore. he endorsed Grand Coulee and Bonneville Dams. 4. At Pontiac, Mich. he was hit by a ripe tomato. 5. At Coffeyville he wrote "No Third Term-Wendell Willkie...
...Meanwhile, F.D.R. busied himself in all but one of these ways: 1. By visiting army camps, navy yards, arsenals, airplane factories. 2. By telling an audience in Philadelphia that George Washington approved of third terms. 3. By reading to his press conference a dispatch from Rome saying the Axis wanted him defeated. 4. By delivering "nonpolitical" speeches. 5. By insisting that labor's gains would be preserved under the national defense program...