Word: gainers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leading ground-gainer among college footballers was Michigan's big, well-nosed Tom Harmon. In eight games he totaled 1,356 yards (868 on the ground and 488 in the air) for an average 169 yards a game, average six yards a play...
Last week for every automobile manufacturer but one, fourth-quarter production totals were well above the mark of a year ago (biggest gainer: Ford). Fourth-quarter sales were enormously up. The one whose production was down-to zero -was Chrysler Corp., beset for seven weeks by C.I.O. trouble...
...Orleans, Len Eshmont (No. 1 ground gainer last year) was swamped by Tulane's smashing Green Wave-and Fordham, pre-season pride of the East, was beaten (7-to-0) by a team from the Deep South for the second week in a row (last fortnight it lost to Alabama...
Core of the Federation has always been its construction unions. Now the A. F. of L. membership base is shifting and widening. Biggest gainer-and biggest union in the Federation-is Dan Tobin's Teamsters, up 40,800 to 350,000. Coming up fast are the butchers, laundry workers, operating engineers, retail clerks, hatters. Tough, clever George E. Browne's stagehands (up 14,200 to 42,000) lost their fight to hog all theatrical performers (TIME, Aug. 21) but they have just won another and vital struggle to keep A. F. of L. supreme in Hollywood studios, downing...
...Merrimen out gained the Bellboys by nearly two or one. Outstanding star on the ground was Bob Russell, as effective a ground-gainer as there is in the league. Graham Riaine, chunky guard, paced the defense...