Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summary: YALE J.V. HARVARD J.V. Schute, McClintock, Bryers, l.w. r.w., Cort, Marcoux, Ware, Gleason Markwald, Peck, Holmes, c. c., Boardman, Quinby, Lincoln Cooke, Bogart, Wilson, r.w. l.w., Clement, Rawson, Robbins Towle, Walker, l.d. r.d., Roberts, Claflin, Perey Morse, Hall, r.d. l.d., Brown Hall, Grayson, g. g., Waldinger, Emerson...
...California and Great Northern in Oregon (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931). Only new mileage now projected is a 28-mi. Great Northern spur to the site of the proposed Grand Coulee Dam in Washington, a 14-mi. line planned by U. S. Army engineers between Wiota and the Fort Peck dam in Montana...
...family, The Four Cohans, in "Jerry Cohan's Irish Hibernia" when he was nine. His sister Josie was billed as "America's Youngest and Most Graceful Skirt Dancer." "Master Georgie" was featured for his "violin tricks and tinkling tunes." Aged 13, George traveled the country in Peck's Bad Boy, grew inured to the beatings he had to take in every town from boys who were irked by the Peck boy's impudence on the stage. By the time the Spanish-American War was declared, The Four Cohans were one of the country's best...
...Prohibition capacity. If it is going to operate at 50% the demand for raw materials for brewing should increase only about 10% over last year: 2,000,000 Ib. more hops, 3,000,000 bu. more barley, 800,000 bu. more corn. Hardly a pinch in a peck of U. S. grain production. The big new grain consumption will come only after beer production exceeds 30,000,000 bbl. a year...
...goods for swapping. Two commodity exchanges in Milwaukee found long lines of would-be customers waiting on their doorsteps the morning after the Wisconsin holiday went into effect. A wrestler signed a contract for a match with any opponent accepting as payment a can of tomatoes and a peck of potatoes. In Manhattan, admission to a Golden Gloves amateur boxing tournament could be had for cigars, combs, soap, chisels, groceries, kettles-anything worth 50?, plus 5? cash for taxes...