Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the Executive Council were about 100 lesser laborites and hangers on. To the vast annoyance of the all-night poker players the Executive Council sessions were scheduled for 9:00 a. m. However, they only lasted until 12:30 p. m. after which there was a daily exodus to the race track at Hialeah Park. One labor man lost $1,500 in two days...
...sale, William Strang himself received the highest price actually paid this year-$20,000 for Twilight Song (2:01¼), champion 2-year-old of 1936. Alleged buyer: Italy's Benito Mussolini. For to this year's Old Glory Sale came European agents who effected the biggest exodus of U. S. harness horses since the turn of the Century. To Austria, Germany, France and Italy went 58 horses of the finest blood lines in the U. S. Italy was the biggest buyer, obviously intent on getting the finest stock at any price. The reason was not merely...
...wholesale exodus of varsity men took away from Coach Earl Blaik the result of his first three years as head coach of the Big Green and at the same time marked the exit of the most powerful Indian eleven since the days of Swede Oberlander...
Railway Express facilities in a college town are taxed with two peak load periods, the incoming in September and the exodus in June, but the reserve power of a National Organization is such that the smooth functioning of the home to room service is unimpaired in efficiency...
...Coryell & Son is an oil marketing company with 486 cut-rate filling stations in about 400 towns and cities in 14 Midwest States. Its highly efficient exodus may have seemed remarkable to Colorado Springs, but in Lincoln people have learned to expect almost anything from a management whose self-advertising is continuous and unique. For 36 years Nebraskans have lacked no reminders of the beautiful friendship between Levi Leland Coryell Sr. and Levi Leland Coryell Jr., who are respectively president and general manager of the company. It started soon after the company did, in Auburn, Neb. when Junior Coryell...