Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winter had depleted supplies of ore at Lake Erie docks to 2,851,951 tons, little more than half the amount on hand last year and the lowest in ten years, shipping companies rejoiced at getting their big boats through to Duluth and Superior two weeks ahead of the 1936 opening. And for the first time in eight years, crews had been signed for every available freighter on the Great Lakes...
...stockholders soliciting proxies to use at the annual Reo meeting this week for the purpose of "revitalizing" the board. Wrote young Mr. Vanderlip: "[We have made] an exhaustive and careful investigation of a new plan for automobile and truck production and sales. ... We propose to have the company go ahead with this plan." Automotive Daily News said that the plan provided for production of 40,000 vehicles per year,* which obviously meant a return to the passenger car field, but Mr. Vanderlip said later he was not so sure of this. Also denied was any tie-up with Auburn Automobile...
...wealth at her death. Thinking that if Stefano has the money it would be as good as hers, Andreina determines that Maria Luisa shall die. She tries to get Pietro to do the job; he will not take her seriously. Stefano deserts her, but still she goes ahead with her scheme. And even at the last, with Maria Luisa murdered and three lives wrecked, Andreina's bitter grudge against the world is still too strong for remorse, too strong for despairing Pietro...
...until the final frame the game was a tight struggle, neither team ever being more than one run ahead. Harvard had a hard time making anything from the offerings of Stehnach, who held them to 4 hits through the eighth, but the Cornell outfielders were playing tag with the ball in a high wind and helped pile up a total of six errors to give the Mitchellmen 4 unearned runs...
...eight race dinghy series held Saturday and Sunday on the Charles, the University sailors placed second in a field of eight colleges. M.I.T. topped the field with 93.5 points, 8.5 points ahead of the Crimson. Ralph Lawson, Jr. '38, George R. Poor '37, James A. Rousmaniere '40, and Harry G. Thorndike '38 raced on the University team...