Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Melbourne ... we play a game . . . which makes all the other football codes look as interesting and as fast as cricket appears to Americans. The game is known as Australian Rules Football ... In the city of Melbourne, an average of 130,000 people travel to league and association club matches every Saturday during the winter months . . . The game features the best attributes of soccer, rugby and gridiron football, and it eliminates the disadvantages of the latter in that it is only on rare occasions that anyone is hurt. Long kicks, high marks (catches) and accurate, speedy passing of the ball...
...Harry Bridges' fast-talking Red-fringed lieutenants told the men to stick to their demand for a raise of 32 cents (to $1.72 an hour). The stevedores did as they were told. They overwhelmingly (1,467 to 149) rejected the offer and voted to stay on strike. Said I.L.W.U. strike strategist Henry Schmidt: "I've told the men they can look for rough times from now on." So could the rest of Hawaii's 540,000 residents...
...Boston-type" trust. Though the ailing securities market in general is barely breathing, the nation's investment companies sold $80 million worth of their own shares in the first quarter of this year, an increase of 26% over 1948. Said Edmund Brown Jr., president of Manhattan's fast-selling Fundamental Investors, Inc.: "May was the biggest month in our history and June was almost as big. Last year's business was around $10,000,000; this year we're running at the rate of $12 million." The open-end trust business, combined with the $1.7 billion...
...looks even better. He is Alex Kellner, 24, a Navy vet whose father once pitched a no-hitter for Tucson in the Arizona-Texas League and whose grandfather once fought John L. Sullivan in a New Orleans exhibition. Last week at Shibe Park, exploiting his breaking stuff and a fast ball that "takes off," Southpaw Kellner won No. 10 by limiting the White Sox to five hits. With a 10-3 record, he is well on his way to becoming a 20-game winner his first year...
Almost daily Cope finds room in his column for his favorite gospel-the coming of a Southland rich with new topsoil, year-round pastureland and milk-fed beef. The foundation of the Cope gospel is the fast-growing vine, kudzu;*he organized Georgia's Kudzu Club (20,000 members), and has plugged the vine so long that friends call him "the Kudzu Kid." It was betting on the horses that introduced Cope (and Georgia) to another important crop. On his way to drop a little money at the 1945 Kentucky Derby, Cope spotted a grass called Kentucky 31 fescue...