Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With no objective match, and with the only opposition furnished by M.L.T., the U.S. Coast Guard, Princeton, and Virginia, it was felt that it would be better, on the whole, to confine boxing entirely to the College...
...after much debate internal on the part of the A.A. Hierarchy, it was given a distinct, if tacit, probationary ranking. Since its inception the course which the sport has followed has tended to increase rather than diminish, the fears of the doubting Thomases. Rivals like M.I.T. and the Coast Guard failed to provide the kind of opposition the team needed, and with Virginia the only opponent worth its salt, the inadequacy of the rest of the schedule more than justifies throwing the whole intercollegiate show overboard. And although the action of the A.A. does not appear to have been influenced...
...League" is the newspaper nickname for a non-existent football league made up of old, ivy-covered colleges on the East Coast. Last week, undergraduate newspapers at Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale simultaneously printed identical editorials advocating that the "Ivy League" be made a reality with conference rules, schedule restrictions patterned on those of the Midwest's Big Ten. "Ivy League" athletic officials pooh-poohed the idea...
Brokerage offices were thrown into excited confusion. So besieged by questioners were the ticker services that their telephone operators could only answer : "Hold on a minute, please." Radio stations had to postpone quotation broadcasts. From coast to coast evening papers, whose Wall Street editions must wait for closing prices and bid & ask quotations, were held up while financial editors futilely tore their hair. Net result of the Stock Exchange's generous attention to Al Smith's warm-hearted plea was a renewed blast of criticism from the outraged Press, which was additionally irked because the Exchange had refused...
...Atchison ordered 27 locomotives and 3,025 freight cars. Pacific Fruit Express, jointly owned by Southern Pacific and Union Pacific, ordered 2,000 new refrigerator cars, announced reconstruction of 1,750 old ones, at a total cost of $10,500,000. For joint service between Chicago and the Pacific Coast, Union Pacific, Southern Pacific and Chicago & North Western ordered two 17-car, streamlined. Diesel-electric lightweight trains from Pullman and General Motor's Electro-Motive Corp...