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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those who expected a tenpin tornado were not disappointed. Although no one managed to get a perfect score, the Superb Beer keglers marked up 91 strikes, smashed their way to the biggest scoring jamboree in the history of the A.B.C.- a team total of 3,234 (640, 599, 712, 615, 668), which set a new A.B.C. record...
...time. But when, once in a blue moon, a waltz (3/4 time) catches on, it usually leaves the best selling of its rivals trailing by laps. Most sensational Spanish-style waltz hit was a tune by Tunesmith Mabel Wayne called Ramona (1928). One of the biggest sellers in Tin Pan Alley's history, Ramona ended by piling up sales of two million copies...
...Hart, sometimes puffs breakfast cereals over the radio. Last year Buck Jones earned as much as $7,500 a week, took in about $300,000 all told. Whenever a Buck Jones picture goes out, it has an audience of 3,500,000 youngsters waiting for it- cinema's biggest fan club, the Buck Jones Rangers. They proudly wear badges, shrill the praises of Buck and his 25-year-old horse, Silver, from Maine to Hawaii...
Catching continues to be Mitchell's biggest problem and this weakness will become more apparent today, since Penn boats the best back-stop in the league in Chuck Morris. Paul Doyle will be the likely Crimson starter behind the plate...
...London, upped the rubber quota for the second half of 1937 to 90% of the base (TIME. March 29, 1937). Almost immediately afterward came the collapse of the British commodity boom, and rubber consumption presently slumped about 25%. In the U. S., world's biggest rubber buyer, rubber consumption dropped as much as 8,000 tons per month and the price to 14? a lb. Last December, therefore, the I. R. R. C. again met in London, cut the rubber quota for the first quarter of 1938 to 70% of the base...