Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even Cincinnati's dog-collared dowagers -to whom Reds usually meant Bolsheviks, flies pests and bunting something one wrapped a baby in-could reel off the minutest details of the Reds' harrowing experiences the past month: a robust team with a fielding average of .975 (best in the league) and a batting average of .273 (third best), they were leading the National League by twelve games on August i and looked like a cinch to win the pennant; but last week, mind you, they were struggling to defend a precarious 2½-game lead against the Cardinals...
When chubby, 30-year-old Henderson first got together with lantern-jawed Writer Palmer, they planned a short, 100-page pamphlet. But, they explain, "Our civic pride got the best of us. ... So in stead of writing a little, book in a month, our civic pride cost us 15 months." Says Author Henderson privately: "We wrote it in every bar in town except the new ones which have just sprung...
...money going into World War I's favorite commodities. Earlier in the month knowing speculators in copper had been stung by the price being pegged at 12? a Ib. (1918 high 26?). Europe was showing no signs of needing U. S. copper. Another World War II flop was wheat, which boomed to 92? first week of September, ended the month at 87? (1918 high: $2.25). Reason: for the week ended Sept. 23, U. S. grain exports totaled 366,000 bushels against 2,779,000 bushels in the same week of 1938. One commodity which had previously got somewhere...
Payoff on Month I of World War II: some plunged in Beth Steel at $go-to-$100, hedged by picking up German Government dollar bonds (which went unnoticed from $5 to $9) on chances that they might go to $25 (netting 400%) if Hitler should happen to get his peace...
...last week's end German submarines had sunk some 175,000 tons of Allied and neutral shipping, plus a British airplane carrier. The carrier was a fine trophy, but the total haul of merchantmen, for the first full month of World War II, was skimpy compared to the big bags of 1917, when the Kaiser's U-boats were sinking five, six, seven, eight hundred thousand tons of shipping a month. Tactically and technologically, Germany's opponents today know much more about fighting submarines than they...