Word: guessing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statement and the public cannot know exactly what Ford's earnings are. Only clue to the firm's profits & losses is the balance sheet it is required to file each year in Massachusetts. Last week the report for 1937 was filed and the public's annual guessing game got under way. Majority guess: Although Ford produced 1,314,369 cars & trucks (10% more than in 1936), profit & loss surplus increased only $5,419,264 (72% less than the 1936 increase); this, offset by a sharp $8,514,335 dip in reserves, indicated that in 1937 Ford Motor...
Sportswriters listened to his claim: "I was a left-handed pitcher for the Phillies. I guess you'd call me the Hubbell of my time. We were playing the Giants in the old Philadelphia ball park on August 21, 1887. Tim Keefe was pitching against me and he had a lot of stuff but I was no slow poke myself. It was the last of the ninth and New York was leading 4-to-3. Two men were out and there were runners on second and third. A week before I'd busted up a game with...
...Vegas, Nev.- that Northwest might avoid paying California's 3% sales tax. The nine who died were not paying passengers but two Lockheed employes, two Northwest officials and one employe, two wives, two children. Principal post-mortem question mark was why Pilot Willey flew so low. Best guess: For some reason he decided to short-cut straight across the mountains and "fly contact''-in sight of ground-from Burbank to Daggett (in the Mojave Desert), instead of skirting the hills and staying on the airlines' beam. One bit of ground Pilot Willey...
MURDER ON SAFARI-Elspeth Huxley- Harper ($2). A jewel theft and two murders on a big-game hunting party in Africa. Addicts may spot the killer, but will probably not be able to guess his method...
...regard to yesterday's elections, he pointed out that only recently had Henlein showed himself as a complete Nazi and revealed that he was working hand in glove with the German government. "I guess a great majority of the Sudeten group will back Henlein, as the safest thing...