Word: pits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doorman guarding the gallery on the seventh floor of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange began turning visitors away. Inside, jampacked spectators looked down to the trading floor where traders were clustering, half an hour early, around the octagonal steps of the coarse-grains pit. Since September 1943 there had been ceilings on oats and barley and trading had all but died. Now a free market had returned...
...last week the Government had bought about 270 million bushels of wheat, and that was slightly more than half of what it intends to ship during this crop year. Thus, in effect, as a prospective purchaser of further vast amounts, it was underwriting the speculation in the pit. It was also underwriting speculation by farmers. Convinced that Government purchases will drive prices still higher, the farmers are still holding back about half the current wheat crop. They can well afford to take the chance...
...Japanese had planned as the modern stone & steel capital city of Manchuria, was surrounded., The big iron works at Anshan (or what remained after Russian removals following V-J day) were at the edge of the Nationalist line, 55 miles south of Mukden. Communists pressed nearer the great open-pit coal mines at Fushun...
...Jayvee are his current big-time worry. Out at the blood pit, as the Jayvees call their practice field, the air rings with piercing cries of "Go, go, go" or "Get blocking in that line" as Boston gets his charges cracking. By the end of the year the backs usually are going, the line usually is blocking, and the team wins...
...have to like to play football to be a Jayvee," Chief says, "because there's no glory involved." Apparently the Jayvees like to play under Boston for they play and scrimmage three hours an afternoon at the blood pit and haven't lost a game since 1945. Last year's Jayvees piled up the best record in Harvard history, ending the season by blasting an unbeaten Yale eleven...