Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beautifully executed squeeze play in the sixth frame which scored two runs broke the Elis' back, and three runs in the seventh put the game on ice. A circuit clout by Jack Cunningham in the second kept the Crimson in the ball game at the very start, while another in the ninth by slugging Lupe Lupten made the Harvard win more certain...
...average cars per passenger-train mile, an inquisitive stockholder may learn how many hopper-bottom gondolas he owns or what percentage of main and branch lines are laid with 131-lb. rails. As conservative as the roads themselves, official statements are perennially drab in format. Last week Union Pacific broke its tradition of severe grey covers by dressing up its annual report for 1935 with a picture of a streamlined locomotive with a bright-colored U. P. shield on its snout. Though in an enterprising industrial company such a change would cause no comment, in a railroad it was startling...
...baton with precision, No. 2 (Beverly Rockhold) and No. 3 (Charles Gruneisen) held the lead. At the final touch-off Texas' anchor-man (Harvey Wallender) had a five-yard start over Temple's Eulace Peacock. Fifteen yards from the finish Negro Peacock suddenly leaped into the air, broke his stride, hopscotched over the line in agony with a pulled muscle. But the Texans deserved their victory. Time was 0:41.1, a half-second better than the meet record. Next day the same foursome, together since freshman year, smashed the 880-yd. record with the time...
...less, you would pay less to the Government." "In other words, if I got nothing I wouldn't have to pay any tax ! " 'Stockholders laughed, allowed that Mr. Avery might not be getting too much but that they certainly were getting too little. Mr. Avery dropped and broke his glasses explaining that Ward's first common stock dividend in nearly six years (20?) was no larger because the company still had to put earnings back in the business. ''Hell, you're going to get your dividends," said President Avery. ''Here...
...chairman of New York Trust, one of the eleven banks to settle, testified last week that most of the members were willing to contribute their share of the $6,300,000 actually needed to make up the Harriman losses, but that two banks, Guaranty Trust and Bankers' Trust, broke up the "rescue party." He remembered that Guaranty Trust's William C. Potter hung up on him when he tried to remonstrate by telephone. Mr. Cooper was called to a meeting...