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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public debt reached $40,440 millions-an alltime record, a 150% increase since 1930, a net increase in the public debt roughly equivalent to that caused by World...
...wild speedballs had almost killed Hank Leiber; others said Feller was just a flash in the pan. Even at the end of the season, when the Cleveland papoose wound up in a blaze of glory-fanning 18 Detroit Tigers in one game for a new major-league record and topping both leagues with a total of 241 strikeouts-the experts still hesitated to call Feller great...
...Feller. The dimple-chinned kid, who still sleeps in a nightgown, pouts when he is dissatisfied and goes to zoos for amusement, was at last recognized as one of the greatest pitchers of all time. With paternal pride the experts pointed to the youngster's record so far this season: 14 victories and only three defeats (better than any other major-leaguer), 119 strikeouts in 149 innings (36 more than his nearest rival). Last year Feller won 17 games and lost eleven. Last week even the most conservative prognosticator predicted that the 20-year-old, $20,000-a-year...
...wager Phileas Fogg, cucumbrous hero of Novelist Jules Verne's best seller, circled the globe in 80 days. This fictive feat remained a record until 1889, when the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, casting about for a circulation-getter, ordered 22-year-old Nellie Ely to "knock about five days off this fellow Phileas Fogg's record." Globe-girdler Bly, bloomered and veiled, sailed from Hoboken, N. J. on a bow-spritted ocean greyhound, completed her stint in 72¼ days...
Since Nellie Ely's day, the record has changed hands as often as wrestling titles...