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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pass by Winthrop with five seconds remaining in the game backfired as Ron Peyton intercepted the ball for Dunster and ran 30 yards for the game's only score. The play had been extremely even up to this point, with both defensive teams standing up well. Dunster's 145-pound guard, Andy Ichiki, continually broke through to nail Winthrop backs behind the line...
After suffering a bad heart attack Tuesday, Bert Haines, long-time Harvard 150 pound crew coach who retired last year, was still on the danger list in "serious condition" yesterday at the Mount Auburn Hospital...
...large farm? Nervously, Nahas insisted that he was personally poor; the investigator would have to see his wife. Madame Nahas explained that she had made the family fortune by dealing in buffaloes. Unusual trade, murmured the investigator, and how had she got together her original capital? A 10,000-pound (Egyptian) wedding gift from her husband, she snapped. The investigator folded his papers. Everyone knew that before Nahas married his Zeinab, he was a poor politician...
...plummeted on the Cotton Exchange last week, dropping $4.00 a bale in one day. Reason: the U.S. Department of Agriculture had just predicted a 14,413,000-bale crop this year, or 524,000 bales above the estimate a month ago. Cotton, which had been selling at 45? a pound less than two years ago, when it was short, was down to about 37½?, five cents above the support level...
Many another commodity has taken the down elevator with cotton. A year ago, hide prices were almost twice those today. Rubber, which at the top of its post-Korea bounce sold for 80? a pound, was down to 27?. Lead was 4? a pound cheaper than a year ago, and zinc 6? less. The BLS index of all commodities, which had jumped a maximum of 16% after Korea, had lost nearly five percent of the gain and, with the near-record 1952 farm crops coming in, many commodities were expected to fall still more. Since retail prices rise & fall with...