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...teams along as scouting spectators; they were scarcely needed at West Point, where Army mercifully cut the last half of its game from 30 minutes to 16. The unbeaten Cadets meet Notre Dame in New York this week-and Navy three weeks hence, in what will certainly be the payoff game of the 1944 season...
Optimists who had forgotten that recent Allied advances were the payoff of a battle fought two months ago in Normandy were shocked last week to find the Germans putting up another fight. But the scare which the Wehrmacht threw into the Allies at Arnhem obscured the fact that last week was a bad week for the Wehrmacht...
...Checks. Last week was payoff time. In the Siegfried Line before Aachen, U.S. troops captured hastily trained boys, old reservists, convalescents from the Russian front...
...Payoff. Grumman is certain that his realism pays. The company has made money and paid dividends every year since it started. From its first year's sales if $110,000, the total swelled to $278,500,000 last year. On this, the company netted $6,598,200 after contract redetermination, including a postwar refund of "1,955,000. This year the company has turned out an estimated $156,000,000 in planes, including its new twin-engined fighter, the Tigercat, in the first six months. After renegotiation and taxes, Grumman expects to net a little more than last year...
...payoff on this unexciting Hambletonian was that one day later, Darnley, a four-year-old owned by Aaron Williams of Corning, N.Y., trotted the distance in 1:59¾ for the fastest competitive mile ever recorded on the Goshen track...