Word: crops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Hal Ulen has developed a good crop of mermen this year, but as they approach the important part of their schedule, they find that their place in the sun is endangered by some League brethren who have grown prodigiously big. Lacking the services of swimmer Curwen, the Crimson were rebuffed by overgrown Brown, but Saturday night they really take on a full-fledged big fellow in Princeton...
...other grass roots editors who stand out well above the general crop...
Chairman McKinsey's success was magnificent but brief. In 1935 and 1936 Marshall Field was back in the black; in 1937 things went to pot all over again. For one thing, Professor McKinsey had anticipated a small cotton crop. When it turned out huge, the manufacturing division lost heavily on its large cotton orders. Even worse, Professor McKinsey never saw Depression II coming at all and the manufacturing division's top-heavy inventories perfectly exemplified U. S. business' 1937 sin. By year's end the manufacturing division had lost some $5,000,000, Marshall Field...
...businessmen long ago began singling out other, more stable indicators. They found them in business's cold statistics-carloadings, for example, a good measure of distribution, showing the quantity of goods being shipped; steel operations, a good measure of production, giving a clue to construction; crop prices, a good indicator of farmers' buying power. But on a 3,000-mile-broad continent these were and are only fragmentary answers to the question of "How's U. S. Business...
...Berlin came news last week of the recent dedication of a new "anti-Semite department," named for Nazi Germany's front-rank anti-Semite, Julius Streicher. Present to open the first university course in Jew-baiting was Namesake Streicher himself. "Professor" Streicher, wearing puttees and carrying a riding crop, delivered a two-and-one-half-hour lecture on "Science and Jews." Keynote: "Any concept of history that records a Jew as a learned man or genius is false...