Word: par
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crimson Below Par...
...case of missing too many shots in the first game which the University of Rochester won 45 to 36. Bunks rang up his highest total of the trip, 16 points, although two men were guarding him; but his teammates were not up to par on shooting or rebounding...
Plus Bonus. The investigating Congressmen got even madder about Maritime Commission's financial arrangements. For building a Liberty ship (average cost $1,800,000), the standard contractor's fee, covering undefined "overhead," is $110,000-based on a par building time of 105 days. Days saved can raise the fee to a $140,000 maximum; days over par can dock it to a minimum of $60,000. Every item chargeable to the building of a ship the Maritime Commission pays. Thus Pete Newell and associates stand to make more than $5 million on the 84 ships without putting...
...York Stock Exchange traders grabbed for Polish, Serbian, Czech and Danish bonds as if the reconstruction had already begun. In London the trend was even more pronounced: for ?100-par Polish 4½s the price hit 28 (almost six times their wartime low), Greek 7s went to 27 (up from a low of 8), Danish 45 to 51 (from 20). And on the day after the African invasion the Amsterdam bourse had such a flood of hopeful buying (e.g. Royal Dutch 1,000-florin par went to 361, up 100 points from the month before) that the Nazis stepped...
Rink prospects, with nine veterans returning, and the best Freshman squad in a decade now in its Sophomore year, are definitely above-par, and the sextet which emerges from nightly practice sessions, started Monday, should be strictly a social climber in the best League circles...