Word: americanes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frank Nekola, Holy Cross portsider who defeated Harvard last Saturday, signed a pitching agreement with the New York American League baseball club two years ago, according to a reported announcement from Judge Landis unconfirmed last night. O'Donnell, director of athletics at Holy Cross, received the following telegram late yesterday afternoon from Judge Landis' secretary: "Nekola agrees to join the New York Yankees, June 22, for specified salary which will begin the day he reports...
...seconds. According to Coach E. L. Farrell, however, this does not mean that Wildes is excluded from a place on the team, since it is possible that he and Leslie Flaksman '29 will run a special two-mile race to determine the final place among the American distance runners...
...merger of several wireless companies. It supplies the radio portion of Columbia radio-phonographs. From it the Mackay (Postal Telegraph) companies buy all their communication equipment, and it supplies a minimum of one-third of the wired radio apparatus used by wired Radio, Inc., a subsidiary of North American Co. (utility serving 932 cities with population of 6,250,000). With these potent customers, and also with an excellent Kolster radio set, it is likely that Kolster's 1929 earnings will exceed the 20? per share figure reported in 1928 on sales of more than...
Despite reports of comparative inactivity in the building industry, figures on high and highest buildings change rapidly. According to the American Institute of Steel Construction, tallest U. S. buildings, either completed or under construction...
...Detroit last week the young, sanguine U. S. tennis team won the American zone Davis Cup preliminaries by taking five matches from some torpid Cubans (Ricardo Morales, Herman Uppman, Gustavo Vollmer). The youngsters-Wilmer Allison, John Hennessey, George Lott, John Van Ryn-then sailed for England, there to team with William Tatem Tilden II and Francis T. Hunter. This U. S. sextet will play the winner of the English-Italian European zone finals for the privilege of meeting France, possessor of the Davis...