Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bradshaw's drive off the fifth tee landed in the bottom half of a broken bottle lying in the rough. He studied the impossible lie, gulped and selected a niblick. One mighty swat sent glass splinters flying, but the ball trickled only a few feet. That stroke cost him...
Two prime commodities, copper and lead, which had taken a severe price shellacking as manufacturers lived off their inventories, made a comeback. Last week, as manufacturers began buying again, the price of both copper and lead rose 1? a lb. Nobody wanted to see them reach their recent inflated levels...
Such talk was relatively easy for steel, which had already felt such a shakeout that it had laid off hundreds of workers. But the auto industry was still booming and expected to sell every car it could make this year. To keep making them, while the market is there, it...
In Kansas, farmers reported freakish results. Wheat had fizzled out where early prospects looked promising, had produced well in areas written off as no good. Yield ran from as low as 2 bushels an acre up to 40. The Kansas crop was almost a complete reversal of last year'...
"Hot rods," souped-up racers built from jalopies, have been an American phenomenon since the '20s, when used cars first became available in big supply. After World War II, which choked off the sport during gasoline rationing, it came back stronger than ever.