Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personal fouls, however, not enemy defenses, have been Schnaitter's main concern. A product of rugged Indiana high school basketball, he is a rough, valuable rebounder. In his sophomore year, however, this aggressiveness gave him the league lead in personals--he averaged 4.7 a game, and was ejected from 14 Yale contests on fouls. Last year, he trimmed this to 4.3, but still topped the EIBL...
Personal fouls, however, not enemy defenses, have been Schnaitter's main concern. A product of rugged Indiana high school basketball, he is a rough, valuable rebounder. In his sophomore year, however, this aggressiveness gave him the league lead in personals--he averaged 4.7 a game, and was ejected from 14 Yale contests on fouls. Last year, he trimmed this to 4.3, but still topped the EIBL...
...call rate roseto 20%; Government spending, instead of declining, was actually up for the year. In any case, any rise or fall in Government spending would have been a trivial factor; the entire federal budget in 1929 was only $3,500,000,000, or 3% of the Gross National Product, compared to $72 billion, or 19% of G.N.P...
...order charts, saw only a shower. Even those who had once talked loudly of depression now spoke of a "rolling readjustment," a "mild recession" or a "lull." The new cliché was "let's be realistic." Being "realistic" meant a drop, at most, in the gross national product of 5% to 10% (or back to about the level of 1952) and a rise in unemployment to 3,500,000. But such "realism" did not necessarily mean that the economy would be much shaken...
Appleton to Appleton. Just as the new series features Tom Swift Jr., the new author is listed as Victor Appleton II. What the older generation of readers never knew was that there never was a Victor Appleton, nor is there one now. The old Tom series was the product of the same writing factory that also churned out The Rover Boys, today produces, in addition to the new Tom, such solid moneymakers as The Bobbsey Twins and the Nancy Drew books. Originator of the assembly-line idea was an immigrant German organist's son named Edward Stratemeyer, who, before...