Word: camel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that no game will be arranged to take its place so there will be no more trials of strength for the Crimson nine until Friday, April 19. One case of measles appeared on the B.U. squad yesterday and this, on top of the two days of rain, broke the camel's back and the game was given up. There is to be another match played however, at the Terrier ball park on May 24 since the original agreement was for a home and home series...
...Camel Man. Biggest asset that Franklin Roosevelt had in planning his renewal of NRA was his possession of a good midway man, Samuel Clay Williams, midway man in NRA theory, midway man (presumably) in NRA history. The one-man rule of this New Deal experiment ended with the resignation of General Johnson. It may return again to replace the present board-rule whenever President Roosevelt can find...
CHANGING ASIA - Egon Erwin Kisch-Knopf ($3). A famed Czechoslovakian reporter's visit to the land of Tamerlane and Genghis Khan. Under the impact of Soviet five-year-planning Turcomen and Uzbeks are leaping from the age of the camel caravan to the age of the motor truck in one jump...
...most famed series in the cinema, Charlie Chan pictures began in 1931 with Charlie Chan Carries On. Since then Chan has carried on in The Black Camel, Charlie Chan's Change, Charlie Chan's Greatest Case, Charlie Chan's Courage, Charlie Chan in London. No longer bothered to invent new titles, Fox will presently release Charlie Chan in Buenos Aires, Charlie Chan in Morocco. Derived from the Saturday Evening Post stories by the late Earl Derr Diggers, the cinema Chan has exhausted the original supply. Now, though Author Diggers' widow receives a royalty on each, Chan...
...fastest selling cigaret last year was Chesterfield (Liggett & Myers) which sold 34.5 billion against 33.8 billion for Camel and 33 billion for Lucky Strike (TIME, Jan. 21). Last week Liggett & Myers reported 1934 earnings of $20,086,000, up more than $3,000,000 from 1933. Simultaneously the directors declared the usual extra dividend of $1 besides the regular quarterly dividend...