Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average city supply five days old on delivery. Thus, via the pasteurizer, every quart of milk produced east of the Great Plains is potential fluid milk for city markets, arbitrary milk "sheds" or inspection areas notwithstanding. Farmers, whose milk always went to a creamery, cheese factory or condensery, now fight for the urban outlets. Dealer-controlled farmer groups, such as Dairymen's League help the farmer cut his own throat, make a united front impossible. The city distributor buys from 50 to 100% more milk than he can sell as such, juggles it among various classifications, does...
...days later Chairman John G. Winant of the Social Security Board, idealistic onetime Governor of New Hampshire, turned in his resignation to fight his fellow-Republican on the Social Security issue, at the same time telling President Roosevelt: "I have never assumed that the . . . Act was without fault...
...advertisement addressed to the Legion, it roared: "Already the demand has been made in several quarters for pensions for all World War Veterans without regard to length of service, need or disability. We will oppose this demand with every resource at our command. We invite your support in this fight, and urge that your convention declare to the public in unmistakable language where the American Legion stands on this issue...
...were aided either by luck, strong batting by teammates, or weak opposition. Hubbell's victories have been, almost without exception, against the best pitchers in the league. In most of them his teammates made less than five runs. All 16 were achieved in the thick of an uphill fight to win the Pennant. The ten victories which preceded Hubbell's string of 16 were of the same class. The half dozen games in which he was defeated, he lost, with two exceptions, by margins of only one run and without allowing his opponents to score more than three...
Since the days when its left-handed Lew Tendler used to fight Lightweight Champion Benny Leonard so regularly that the names of the two fighters sounded like the title of a corporation, Philadelphia has always had at least one first-rate functioning fighter of one sort or another. Tendler, now a 180-lb. restaurateur, is the manager of Philadelphia's latest pugilistic hope, a large blond Italian named Al Ettore. Without fighting much outside his home town, Ettore had by last summer managed to get enough local following to justify a bout with famed Joe Louis, who is trying...