Word: bugaboos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bugaboo of college basketball teams this year is not Purdue, Indiana or Wisconsin, but a team of sailors from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. Last week, before 5,000 screaming trainees who packed the Station's brand-new drill hall, they swamped Northwestern, 47-to-38, for their 14th victory in 16 starts...
...provide the answers to these and other questions is Stanley K. Leonard, the man behind the scenes in Mem Hall who went to bat this year for the second time with the bugaboo of registration...
...months fans have buzzed about Philip ("Scooter") Rizzuto, 22, a rookie the Yankees recently refused to sell for $150,000. Scooter Rizzuto at shortstop and his pal, Gerry Priddy, at second base, had made Kansas City the bugaboo of rival American Association clubs. Last year these Keystone Kids led Kansas City to its second consecutive pennant and set a new league record for double plays: 130. Both are extraordinary hitters, extraordinary fielders. But it was Rizzuto, the Scooter, who caught the fans' fancy...
...inflation, by pointing to General Motors' last annual statement, which showed a total pay roll of $386,000,000, profits of $183,000,000. Said the colonel: "For every dollar paid out in wages and salaries almost 50% was realized in profits. ... I wonder if that old inflation bugaboo looks in the window at businessmen when they are confronted with profits -and scares them just as he does when they are confronted with wage increases. I called it a bugaboo because inflation does not begin until production capacity, through a shortage of machines, raw materials or workers, cannot meet...
Since the U. S. became concerned with defense of the hemisphere, it has tried to promote the building of naval and air bases in Uruguay to protect the River Plate-and with it the whole rich east coast of South America. But Argentina's pride and the bugaboo of Yanqui Imperialism have operated against a U. S.-Uruguay deal...