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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...DiGangi (the Purple's starting left guard) is bigger than desk," said backfield coach Bob Margarita last night, indicating an antique model in the corner of Dillon Field House. "You can bet we won't try to run over him much Saturday, but a big man like that can't follow a change of direction," he pointed...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Varsity Hopes to Baffle Holy Cross | 10/17/1947 | See Source »

Coshocton likes and admires Bill Green. It is one spot in the U.S. where the citizenry thinks he is a bigger man than John Lewis. Coshocton has had a grudge against John L. ever since he came through town and told reporters: "I thought I saw Bill Green, but it was just a baggage man leaning against a post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Man from Hardscrabble Hill | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

Some northern California fishermen have already gone south to San Pedro, where the catch last season was bigger than usual. Many more were prompted to follow by reports this week from San Pedro, where the first day's catch was the second highest on record. But the canners of northern California, with some $60,000,000 tied up in factory equipment, are much worse off. A few have turned to vegetable canning. But most of them are just waiting despondently for an end to nature's perverse magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISHING: Where Are the Sardines? | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...University could run it on a non-profit basis," he admitted, "the price would be a lot lower, it would be a much bigger thing, and it would be available to everyone . . . The Graduate students, in fact, need it more than do those in the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Housemasters Veto Plan to Set Up Laundry Facilities in House Cellars | 10/10/1947 | See Source »

...Bigger Cut. Livestock raisers,according to Department of Agriculture figures, are the chief beneficiaries of high-priced meat. They now get 70? of every consumer's dollar spent on meat, as against 51? in 1939. Although it had no exact figures on the remaining 30? , the department guessed that it was split as follows: commission agents 2?, packers 10? , wholesalers 3? and retailers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Sep. 29, 1947 | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

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