Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Norfolk & Western made $33,000,000 in 1936 as against $25,000,000 year before, Chesapeake & Ohio $43.000,000 as against $31,000,000, Pennsylvania $38,000,000 as against $23,000,000, Nickel Plate $7,000.000 as against $1,000,000. A particularly good sign was that the pace of improvement quickened toward the year's end, Southern Pacific, for example, enjoying the best December in its history. An even better sign for U. S. railroads as a whole was that while the total gross revenue for December was more than 20% below 1929, net income...
...things now stand, the quarter milers need to improve considerably before they will be winning points with regularity equal to the middle distance squads 'Powerhouse' Berizzi is the pace-setter for this contingent, with Frank Coleman taking second honors. Harley 'Steamboat' Stowell gave early promise of developing into a reliable 440 swimmer, but illness has forced him to scratch from the recent meets...
Result of this lassitude was that after more or less keeping pace with consumption from 1933 through 1935 the production of cocoa in West Africa began to fall off relatively last year. On the British Gold Coast, whose Accra beans make up the largest proportion of the crop, an early season drought deprived trees of needed moisture. Cocoa figures are notoriously hard to get but when harvest time came on the Gold Coast in October, crop estimate for that area dropped from 260,000 ton to 235,000. In Brazil, whose bahia crop is the world's second largest...
Opening at a fast pace Winslow took a pass from Irwin and scored five minutes after the faceoff to put the Yardlings out front. Foster of Andover scored to even things up but before the period closed Coleman took a pass from Roosevelt and converted it to give the Crimson a two to one lead. Neither team was able to score in the second period...
...Joan talking through the visitors' grill in the death house; the preparations for a transfusion to save Eddie's life so that he can be electrocuted. For such things and the craftsmanship of Screen Writers Gene Towne and Graham Baker, Yon Only Live Once sets a pace which 1937 cops-&-robbers sagas may find hard to beat...