Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week 36,000 citizens in Indiana, 27,000 in California, 25,000 each in Texas and New York, 5,000 in Montana?300,000 all told in the nation?were seeking public office in next autumn's elections. Like 300,000 raisins they helped to make the U. S. political ferment seethe, burble, and spill over in dozens of different places...
...Boston, where he first played major-league baseball as a pitcher for the Red Sox in 1914, George Herman ("Babe") Ruth last week announced: "I'm definitely through as a regular player at the end of this season." His plans: a trip to Japan next Autumn, after that, "the best offer-if any." The New York Yankees bought Babe Ruth from Boston for $125,000 after the 1919 season. In the course of his career he had made 704 homeruns up to last week. His record for one season...
Last week Helena's newspaper strike was settled. Printers, on the promise that their demand for a 30? per hour wage increase would be arbitrated this autumn, agreed to resume work at the old scale...
...eggs, which were all laid in March, April and May?before the drought seriously affected production. There are 9,000,000 cases of eggs in storage which is only 500,000 cases less than a year ago. However, the advancing price of corn is almost sure to make the autumn and winter egg crop small,?a thought which has boosted October futures from 19¢ per doz. to 22¢ in the last few weeks...
...railroads and in a steel mill, on an ocean liner and a farm . . . bummed east and west, was a day laborer. I was married once. ..." Appointment in Samarra is his first novel. A volume of his short stories, The Doctor's Son, will be published this autumn...