Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...week's end Their Majesties returned again to Buckingham to inspect the results of a third attack. This time the Queen's quarters were hit, when a heavy bomb smashed through her suite to the tapestry room on the first floor, used by the Queen as a drawing room. As the all-out attacks by the Luftwaffe went into their second week, the damage to the palace was estimated at over...
...Again, variety shows were the audiences' favorite class. Second place went to classical music, third to aerial dramas. Close behind were serials, which make up 84.9% of daytime programs. Also in the van on the C. A. B. books were the audience-participation shows, with Kay Kyser's College of Musical Knowledge and Pot o' Gold listed among the first...
...family rank of 8,890 children born at the St. Louis City Hospital over a five-year period. Of these, 102 (1.1%) weighed over 4,500 grams (9.9 pounds). The average baby in this heavyweight group was a fifth child, whereas the average for the whole was a third child...
Steel is the Maine of industries; as it goes, so-usually-goes the economy. Last week the U. S. steel industry looked back on the third best month in its history. But its rate of production last week-93% of capacity-was already ahead of August's 89.72%. It was, in fact, working nearly at the practical maximum of its present equipment. And steel's repercussive power over the economy was already being felt...
...five years of Feld-Crawford, hundreds of retail liquor price wars have been nipped in the bud. Under threat of injunction, "chiselers" were forced to get back in line. But last week New York drinkers enjoyed the best price war yet. For the third successive week prices were 30 to 40% below fixed levels. Many New Yorkers, who had often spent $1 tunnel fare to buy their liquor in New Jersey, bought around the corner, rubbed elbows with Jerseyites buying in Manhattan. Fearing the price war might end any minute, they sent sales sky high...