Word: pit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pole Vault. Bill Miller of Stanford lay on his back in the sawdust pit, looking up at the bar, 14 ft., 3 in. over his head. The bar was jouncing and shaking but the huge, pleased roar of 85,000 spectators did not make it fall. Japan's little Shuhei Nishida, grinning broadly, helped Miller to his feet. Amazingly, Nishida had vaulted higher than Bill Graber or George Jefferson, two U. S. contestants who had been expected to fight it out with Miller for the Olympic championship. At 14:3, Nishida had tried three times and missed, then watched Miller...
...more injuries suffered by athletes waiting for the games to start at Los Angeles last week, most disastrous was the one which befell Col. Giuseppe Pirzio-Biroli, 52, captain of the Italian rifle team. He fell into a target pit while supervising practice, fractured a vertebra, had to be taken to the California hospital where physicians said he must remain, in a plaster cast, for three months...
...city passed an ordinance to put a stop to "horse racing and careless shooting on Chicago's principal streets," But last week a commission composed of President Hoover's Secretary of Agriculture. Secretary of Commerce and Attorney General, tried to throttle the strident voices of the Pit by ordering it to suspend all trading in grain futures for 60 days from Aug. 7. Basis of the order was Farmers National Grain Corp.'s charge that it was illegally denied clearing privileges...
Originating in the Federal Farm Board's effort to support wheat prices, the feud between the Pit and the U. S. has been long and bitter. Much of the Farm Board's trading is conducted through Farmers National, a co-operative buttressed with Farm Board funds. Though Farmers National has always been able to buy & sell, it lost its clearing privileges when its subsidiary, Updike Grain Co., a member of the Board of Trade's affiliated clearing corporation, was suspended because its officers were charged with swearing false affidavits of ownership (TIME, June 6).* To avoid paying...
...Thomas Earl had always spoken kindly. "He is docile, tame and well mannered," said he. One day last week Keeper Earl entered Sunshine's cage with a breakfast of raw meat, carrots, two loaves of bread. Sunshine was not in a good humor, did not retire to his pit for his meal. Keeper...