Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...improved and the game graduated from smalltime gyms to big-city arenas. The "10-second rule" was introduced, requiring the team putting the ball in play to be across the center line in that time; the old center jump was eliminated. Out of the Midwest and the far West came firehouse basketball and the fast break. The old distinction between forwards and guards was now all but forgotten. As coach of the New York (pro) Knickerbockers, Lapchick now spends most of his time setting up defenses to hold the opposition under 75 points, figuring that if he can hold them...
...From China, from an anonymous Chinese Christian businessman, came a gift of $1,000,000 to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. This, the largest cash donation ever received by the board from a living donor, was to be used to build a settlement for retired Presbyterian missionaries. The gift, said its modest donor, was "in gratitude to God for my Christian education and life, and in appreciation of the service your missionaries have given China...
...Bank's Joseph E. Pogue agreed. The U.S. was lucky, said he, that the oil industry's profits had been so high. Pogue cited 30 oil companies whose total earnings topped the $2 billion mark. 'The same companies had invested an equal amount (71% of which came from earnings) in new refineries and fields, and had licked the oil shortage...
...group of insurance companies snapped up $143 million worth of Transcontinental bonds. Another $26.5 million came from the sale of notes, convertible into preferred stock after the pipeline is completed. The rest came from common stock privately sold for $10 a share...
...World War II receded, its outline seemed to become clearer-in non-fiction as in fiction. First had come the journalists-putting down history on the run. Now came the participants with their memoirs. Though the.r reticences and their partisanship inevitably left plenty of work for the future historian, the generals and the statesmen were responsible for some of this year's best books...