Word: low
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Donahue will compete in the 220 yard low hurdles, in which he will be teamed up with Roger S. Schafer...
...Heptagonal Meet, however, he hit his stride and smashed through to a victory in the highs; Donahue, injured in the low hurdle trials, finished fourth. In the I. C. 4-A, meet Shields finished second; Donahue did not compete...
...Eastern roads got a forced lesson in low-fare operation when ICC ordered their coach fares cut from 3.6? per mile to 2?, their Pullman fares from 4? to 3?. While they talked darkly of a court fight (which they did not make because Baltimore & Ohio refused to join them), the new rates increased passenger revenues. New York Central, whose big, bald President Frederick Ely Williamson headed an indignant protest committee of Eastern road presidents, enjoyed a $7,000,000 rise in passenger income for the year...
This was a lesson in economics. Last week the Eastern roads tacitly admitted that they had learned something from it. Mr. Williamson's committee plumped for lower rates and bigger volume-with a hedge. The Western roads which have profited by low fares have comparatively long passenger hauls. (Average passenger ride on Union Pacific: 560.89 miles. Average on New York Central: 57.85 miles.) So the Eastern roads plan to scale their fares down to encourage longer rides...
Floyd Stahl's baseball nine hit a new low for the season in almost every department of the game on Saturday afternoon and after two hours and fifteen minutes of listless play, the Tufts Jumbos carried off an unexpected 4 to 2 victory...