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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tigertown, the Jayvees may find troubles as the well-balanced Orange and Black Jayvee aggregation has already chalked up two lop-sided wins while suffering only one defeat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAYVEE, YARDING ELEVENS TO SEE ACTION AS HARRIERS, SOCCER TEAM PERFORM AWAY | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

Duly announced by posters and all that sort of thing, we find that Stan Brown and his band have been signed by Dunster House for their dance a week from tomorrow. This is something I'm glad to sec. because Stan besides having a very good band, has a Harvard band; and it's about time we got ourselves a little really decent jazz. Every big Midwestern school has at least one good band, and even Yale has creditable imitations of one. So with drum majorettes and stuff, it would seem as if the old place is taking life...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

...these horseless hunters are young, red-blooded suburbanites who find the sport inexpensive outdoor exercise for fall and winter Sundays. Some are middle-aged beaglers-notably the Buckrams' walrusy Hoffman Nickerson (Harvard '11) and his British bride of a year, whose enthusiasm for beagling dates back to her pigtail days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horseless Hunters | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Texaco and Socony-Vacuum the Barco oil is welcome. Both sell overseas (there is a 21? tariff on oil imports to the U. S.) and neither has enough oil for its distribution system. In a warring world they will doubtless find buyers for their Colombian oil, but may bring it to the U. S. to be refined. Last week old Virgilio Barco was many years in his grave, but his son Jorge (pronounced Horkhay) Barco, in Cúcuta, had himself a few drinks as the royalties began to accumulate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PETROLEUM: The Barco | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...distributors, National Dairy Products and Borden, whose subsidiaries distribute milk in most big cities, find it to their advantage to preserve home milk delivery. Their milk wagon routes give them a relatively closed market, and there is more competition in store sales. Actually the distributors make more money on cheese, butter, etc., so they have no special interest in pushing the sale of bottled milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Let 'Em Drink Grade A | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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