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offered a prize of ?20 to that porter of London's Borough Market in Southwark who could run fastest with a pile of half-bushel baskets on his head. Cinemactor Chaplin once lived in Southwark, had porters for friends...
...were getting 25? per bu. cash for their product. On the Chicago Board of Trade July futures dipped to 50¼?, the lowest figure since the exchange first opened in April 1848.* Around Hutchinson, Kans. the country was dotted with great mounds of wheat-10,000 bu. to the pile-which had been dumped out of doors for lack of elevator space. At Bucklin, one Forrest Kennett got his name in the papers by scorning a 27? per bu. offer, decorating his truck with jackasses labelled "Farm Board" and "Wheat Farmer," and driving away with the tail board down...
...Radio Commission summoned RCA and its subsidiaries to show cause why the extreme penalty of the law should not be invoked and its licenses canceled July 15. At last RPA had RCA on the defense before a? government body empowered to sweep RCA's vast business into the junk pile at one stroke...
...game lasts an hour, and since it is unlikely that any score will be made, the winner is decided according to the number of "shies" (throws) made at the goal. As a spectacle, the Wall Game offers little but the sight of numerous brawny youths scrambling in a pile against the Wall and accomplishing, apparently, nothing but the destruction of each other's clothes and complexions...
...Graber's tendency to forget. Then Graber began to trot forward, slowly, easily: suddenly his body swung up, over the knot of people, poised above them for a second at a wildly reclining angle in midair. Then he straightened, shot clear, dropped into a limp heap on the sawdust pile. The crossbar, placed at the height for a new intercollegiate record of 14 ft. ½ in., shivered but did not fall. A few minutes later, versatile Barney Berlinger of Pennsylvania (TIME, May 4), broke a tie for second place and Southern California had won the meet?46% points to Stanford...