Word: highly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Facing the Crimson tonight is the problem of breaking their high-scoring due of John Rockwell and Ed Smith loose against the Gymnasis. Harvard's two top scorers were held to a total of 18 points in Saturday night's 58 to 33 defeat at the hands of Georgetown, and seem to control the varsity's fate tonight...
Another monument to the strange economics of the Government's price-support program (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was on view last week. It consisted of 4,000 tons of cottonseed, piled high on the concrete tennis courts of a former naval air station in Oklahoma City. Bought and paid for by the U.S. taxpayer (through the Commodity Credit Corp.), the cottonseed seemed destined for the same fate as the mountains of potatoes, eggs and other commodities which the Government in the past has bought...
Even though the grocery business stands near its alltime high, sales-sharp Nathan Cummings, chairman of the giant Consolidated Grocers Corp., thought there was something wrong. He felt that neither he nor the grocers were selling enough food. To find out how to boost sales, the boss of the largest U.S. food wholesaling organization packed a sample case eight weeks ago and took off on a tour of hundreds of stores in ten states. He frequently donned a cotton coat and worked for stores behind the counters, "cut the cans" (gave out free samples), watched shoppers' buying habits...
...brass, hounded by publishers and eager ghostwriters, combed memories, diaries and official records to get their stories on the record. Hard-boiled Major General Claire Chennault had a field day with U.S. blundering in China in Way of a Fighter, and General "Howlin' Mad" Smith lashed out at high-level boners in his story of what happened to his marines in the Pacific. General "Hap" Arnold's yarn-spinning Global Mission was twice too long but important for any student of the war in the air. Blunt, down-to-earth and unghosted was General George Kenney...
...High man for the Varsity was Charley Hellers with a 280 count, but Yardling Jim Smith was top scorer of the day for the Crimson with a score...