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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stroke. While in practice he keeps his form well under control, he is apt to shoot his slide a little under the stress of a race. Setting the pace for the second eight is Jack Wilson, who only tips the scale at 167. However, Wilson is strong and extra good on the low strokes. He has a little trouble still when he tries to set the pace for a good sprint...

Author: By William W. Tyns, | Title: Lining Them Up | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

...Century of Progress did manage to net $702,171, but that was a peewee return on the $47,000,000 investment (of which $10,000,000 was put up by the fair's promoters and recovered in full). The real return was an estimated $700,000,000 in extra business it drew to Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: In Mr. Whalen's Image | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Federal Government's $3,505,000 contribution is little more than a gift, with some slight value as good-will advertising. All told, other States came through with only $2,000,000-which they may hope to get back in the form of extra summer visitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: In Mr. Whalen's Image | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...lecture, the last of a series of three on the general topic, "The Changing West," will start at 8 o'clock. The lectures have been given under the auspices of the Harvard Committee on Extra Curricular Study of American History. It will be broadcast internationally over the non-commercial short wave station WIXAL, of Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: William Allen White Will Speak on Survival of West | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...proven himself a worthy rival of Yale's Moe Jubitz and Dartmouth's Hal Wonson by his six-hit performance in the Columbia tussle and his four-hit masterpiece in whitewashing Princeton. In his last two games, the big pitcher has passed three men, and allowed only one extra base knock...

Author: By Theodore R. Barnett, | Title: HARD-HITTING NINE TACKLES TERRIERS | 4/25/1939 | See Source »

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