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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Adrian Quist was browned off. After all, he had represented Australia in four previous Davis Cup rounds (1936, 1938, 1939, 1946); he was also Australia's national singles champion. What if he was 35, and getting a trifle rubber-legged? Complained Quist: "I've been reading that we'll be lucky to win one of the five matches . . . Personally, I look for a very close and dramatic three-day series...
...harvesting the biggest crop in history. The wheat harvest would yield more than 1.2 billion bushels. Dusty trucks were rolling along the roads with corn which is expected to total a record-breaking 3.5 billion bushels (previous record: 3.2 billion in 1946). Man and nature had collaborated in a great triumph...
...drove a 15-block course in Colorado Springs, Colo., carefully adhering to traffic rules, finished in 9 minutes and 35.1 seconds. Then, with police permission, he went around again at illegal speeds; he broke 52 traffic rules but, he said, was able to cut only 3.9 seconds off his previous mark...
...Lonely Heart. In Clearfield, Pa., Mrs. Margaret Jane Redden, 82, and John D. Lewis, 81, who have had 25 children by previous marriages, announced: "This time we're marrying for companionship...
Meat. In Chicago, steers brought $41.35 per 100 Ibs., 10? higher than the previous alltime record; hogs brought $31.85, 35? over the previous record which had stood for 15 days. But the price of corn, meat's raw material, was already coming down: prospects of a bumper crop drove corn down 6? to 13? a bushel during the week...