Word: fakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fake Bottom. But, across the U.S., skyhigh butter prices had started to sag in mid-December. In Chicago they went down 7?. A fortnight ago Swift & Co. was so sure they were going down that it contracted to sell upward of 50,000 lbs. of butter to state institutions at 69? a lb., starting in January. So the worried league stepped in and bought upward of 500,000 lbs. of butter, kept a false bottom under the New York market until the January price of milk was set where the farmers wanted it. When the league stopped buying, the price...
...well-made-up front page, sound news coverage and conscious inaccuracy were often neighbors. Says sports columnist Al Laney, a Heraldmau for ten years "We used to fake stories all the time. Often we used to make up the front page at 8 p.m. [it was a morning paper], before we knew what the news would be. Then we would just find stories to fit." Touring Americans, flattered to find their names in the society columns, often bought 50 or more copies to send to the folks back home...
...Camp Edwards, where 2,800 reluctant soldiers facing shipment to battlefronts were imprisoned in a stockade, he discovered that, to avoid going, men threw away their false teeth, hid in coal bins, jumped off harbor boats, paid up to $1,000 to civilian doctors to tell them how to fake illness. But he also found "psychopathic personalities," and among the toughest outfits: in North Africa soldiers in a crack airborne division took pot shots at Arabs to test their marksmanship, tossed hand grenades among their own men as a practical joke...
...this set-up, of course, the quarterback is the most important operator. Odell's quarterback will fake, spin and fade directly to his rear as opposed to the more usual "T" ball-handler, who will step off to the right behind his guards and tackles...
Every detail of Dick Harlow's system--every block, spin, loop, and fake--received a thorough going-over yesterday afternoon, when the Varsity perfected its plans for stopping the Yale attack on Saturday and polished a few offensive tricks...