Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Feature of the afternoon was Ted Schoenberg's 4:30 flattening of Bill Stone with a three-quarter nelson in the 126 pound division. Schoenberg, repeating his victory in Saturday's close Columbia meet, again showed his steady improvement as a first-string wrestler...
...operas (Rheingold, Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung) totaling 14 hours of music & drama, requires tremendous listening endurance. But for eight years every Metropolitan Ring cycle has been sung to a sold-out house. Last week the first of this year's cycles opened. For a continuous two hours and a quarter (Rheingold has no intermission) the intrepid listeners took it and liked it. Only one woman had to be carried...
General Motors is the biggest unit in the great U. S. automobile industry (consumer goods). G. M. had a 1938 profit of $102,320,000 compared to a 1937 profit of $196,436,598. The last quarter of 1938 was the ninth best in G. M. history, contributing $63,932,000 (about 62%) of the year...
...Steel is the biggest unit in the biggest of U. S. producer-goods industries. Compared to a 1937 profit of $94,944,358, U. S. Steel had a 1938 deficit of $7,755,914 -despite a final-quarter pickup in operations which earned a profit...
SANTA ANITA PARK, Cal.--Neil McCarthy's "Today," a 6-1 outsider in a three-horse field, defeated the great "Seabiscuit" by two and a quarter lengths today in track record time for the mile allowance event...