Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Billy Fox wasn't the only young fellow to drop out of the running in a hurry. There had been a lot of talk about a young hopeful named Coley Wallace, 20-year-old Golden Glover who looks a little like Joe Louis. But Wallace didn't look like a young Louis in the ring last week (while winning the eastern Golden Gloves championship), and talk about him hushed...
...least 500,000,000 bushels a year for the next five years from Canada, the U.S. and Australia. Canada will supply 46% of it, the U.S. 37%, Australia the rest. Maximum price will be $2 a bushel. The minimum will be $1.50 the first year, will then drop 10? a year...
...Lucky Strikes last year chalked up a record $819,631,122 in sales, and stayed in first place. But its increase in business (7.2%) was less than R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.'s Camels (15.5%) and Liggett & Myers' Chesterfield (10.6%). The only major company to suffer a drop was Philip Morris, whose sales slumped...
...breaststroke is one race where time has brought disappointment rather than improvement. Captain Chuck Hoelzer, steady winner and strong competitor in both the 200-yard event and the crucial medley relay, has been forced to drop out of the lineup because of academic pressure, leaving the improving but not as yet firstrank Don Ulen to bear the brunt...
...Barclaymen drew to within seven points of the Green in the waning moments of play. They lost Hauptfuhrer in the process, however, and then watched the fleet-footed enemy drop in three baskets and an equal number of foul shots, punctuated only by two Crimson free throws, to clinch the encounter...