Word: monday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That number is expected to swell up to about 120 by Monday when the last Yardling football hopefuls will report for practice. Of this year's group there are 39 backs, 28 ends, 14 tackles, 15 guards, and five centers. The bumper crop of flankmen is headed by Exonians Charley Tobias and Johnny Shattuck...
Upperclassmen in the College return tomorrow and Monday, and by Monday night officials expect to have an undergraduate body of about 3700 enrolled, approximately the same as last year...
...much greater involuntary hoards of farm commodities which he has long tried to dispose of. At week's end, after columnists and editorial writers had failed to shout down the buying rush, he slouched up to the microphone and over a nationwide network called a halt: "Since last Monday," he said, "housewives have been conducting runs on grocery stores in the same manner as depositors used to conduct runs on banks...
London was most thoroughly prepared. It planned to evacuate its 650,000 school children, school by school, into "safe" areas, billet them with rural families, teach them in rural schools on double shifts. On Monday, when London's schools opened for the fall term, its school children had a dress rehearsal. Instead of books, each child brought to school a gas mask and a knapsack (for some a pillowcase had to do) containing a change of underwear, spare stockings, pajamas, toothbrush, towel, soap, comb, 48-hours rations, milk, canned beef, biscuits, chocolate bars. Excused from lessons, pupils played...
Friday at dawn, lights were still burning in the Stock Exchange where a skeleton summer clerical staff was compiling the transactions of the biggest trading day (1,306,690 shares) since October, 1911. The New York Times average of 50 stocks, standing at $64.69 on Monday, had dropped 10% to $57.77 by Thursday. European holders of U. S. stocks were jettisoning their financial cargoes and the panic had spread to U. S. investors. By 9 a. m., brokers were swamped by a tidal wave of selling orders...