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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nils V. (Swede) Nelson '20 paid a long tribute to the ex-coach in a later speech. The dinner featured Nelson's award to Boston University placekicked. Jim Britt was master of ceremonies...
Soviet ships had been calling at U.S. ports ever since V-J Day, and nobody but customs officials and longshoremen had paid much attention to them. But last week, when the 10,000-ton Soviet steamship Chukotka tied up at a Jersey City pier and began loading $282,000 worth of industrial machinery (which had been licensed for export by the Department of Commerce), all hell broke loose...
...Citizens of St. Louis were beginning to worry over having the lowest-paid major police force in the nation. Half of their 1,750 disgusted cops were in debt, others were quitting. As the Missouri State Legislature dragged its feet on a pay-raise bill, the crime, rate rose 58% over 1947. Said one $220-a-month patrolman's son: "I don't wanta be a cop; I wanta be a gangster. They make more money...
...bronze and marble conference halls of Cuba's Capitolio Nacional the delegates paid lip service to the ideals of the Geneva draft; but the real news was made in the cafés and lobbies where, over their frozen daiquiris, the delegates were busy planning more restrictions. The Moslem countries prepared a Middle East Bloc, to be developed by a series of government five-and twelve-year plans; the Argentines wanted a similar preference bloc in South America; the Soviet satellites (three of whom had sent representatives to Havana even though Russia had not) talked of further tightening their...
...Business. Last season the National Hockey League's six teams (two in Canada, four in the U.S.) drew better than 2,400,000 fans, grossed almost $4,000,000, paid 102 players (93 Canadians, four Britons, five U.S. citizens) about $900,000. The league had an investment of $25,000,000 in arenas. The three professional leagues now operating had an investment in players of $75,000.000. Such figures are only a partial measure of how far the game has come in its 73 years of history...