Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another American horse, Battleship (son of Man o' War), a small chestnut stallion who began his career as a flat racer, pulled ahead. At Canal Turn, Royal Mail- whose former owner, Hugh Lloyd Thomas, was killed while training to ride the race, whose jockey fractured a collarbone last month-succumbed to his jinx. He burst a blood vessel and pulled out of the race...
...Gossip Walter Winchell announced in his syndicated column that Einstein was writing a book on physics "which you, you and you can understand." It is doubtful whether many of Columnist Winchell's "you's" will find The Evolution of Physics light reading. The Book-of-the-Month Club considered the manuscript at length, finally rejected it as a club selection, fearing an avalanche of returns from readers who would find it too difficult. Yet the U. S. publishers have turned out a first printing of 5,000 copies. Cambridge University Press, which is handling the English publication...
Died. Andrew Michalacopoulos, 63, onetime (1924) Premier of Greece; of heart disease. A leader in Greece's Conservative Democratic Party and a Cabinet member for more than a decade all told, he last month was exiled to one of Greece's tiny islands in the Aegean Sea for "trying to undermine the country's finances, foreign policy and public order by secretly circulating libelous leaflets...
...Month and a half ago. however, a Federal grand jury brought in indictments against John W. Gilliland, president of Bell General Pipe Line Co. of Gladewater, and 24 others, most of them employes of Bell General and its subsidiaries. Bell General is considered the largest independent pipe line in the East Texas field, which indicated the Connally Act was at last to be invoked in earnest. By last week 23 of the 25 had posted bond. One of the other two was variously reported as being in Spain and the Samoa Islands...
...market, gave Cargill a real trimming as the price fell 27?. Last September Cargill got even. With only a small carryover from the previous year, corn was scarce anyway and Cargill bought almost twice as much (6,000,000 bu.) as there was available for delivery that month. There followed a mad forage for corn by shorts, of whom the biggest was Farmers National. As the price soared to $1.16 a bu., it became apparent that the shorts could not cover and the Chicago Pit was threatened with the worst corn corner in years. Furious, the Board of Trade finally...