Word: jumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First of the sixteen foreign teams ? to arrive in the U. S. were the Norwegian skiers, who won the championship in 1924 and 1928. Sigmund Rudd, whose 265-ft. jump three years ago is the world's record, was one of the 18 members of the team, as was Johann Grottumsbraaten, clothes dealer of Oslo, a slight, baldheaded man of 32, whom most Norwegians consider the greatest skier in the world. The Swedes brought a woman to cook their food, a crack team for the 50-kilometer ski-race...
...retold as current news the fascinating story of Charles Lange of Port Townsend, Wash., a whimsical businessman who, having raised a school of salmon trout from the egg, keeps them in a pool beneath his office window, trains them to rise at his call, eat from his hand, even jump from the water through a hoop...
Spectacular even in Bull Market days was the upward rush of Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. common stock ($108 to $224 in two months). One day last week Goldman Sachs made another spectacular jump but this time only from $1.88 to $3.63. As soon as Goldman Sachs started jumping last week Wall Streeters guessed at what was coming. Last spring it became known that Tri-Continental Corp. was angling for a large interest in Goldman Sachs. When Tri-Continental ceased angling, it was rumored that Atlas Utilities Corp. was working out a deal...
...Philadelphia, Orlandi Spartaco, whose antiFascism impelled him to jump on the running board of visiting Foreign Minister Dino Grandi's car two months ago and shout insults, was released from jail on $1,000 bail. The Italian statesman had pleaded with Governor Gifford Pinchot to release Zealot Spartaco from a two-year prison sentence...
...Versailles. In 1919 he lost his seat as Deputy, quarreled with some of his Socialist colleagues, remained friendly with others and is said to have been briefly enrolled at one time as both a Socialist and a Communist, not being sure which way the cat of popular sentiment would jump...