Word: seasons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This vast experiment, directly contrary to Secretary of State Hull's reciprocal trade agreements, directly resulted from cotton's tragic predicament: 1) cotton exports for the season ending July 31 were 3,400,000 bales, smallest in 60 years; 2) Mr. Wallace is still holding the bag on 11,300,000 bales of cotton, the accumulated surplus; 3) in three weeks cotton-pickers will begin plucking 1939 bolls for a new unwanted, unsalable crop expected to total about 12,000,000 more bales...
...week the fact-facing news came out that the real-estate company is feeling the pinch, may face liquidation. So said its President Robert S. Brewster in a letter to the Opera Association's Chairman Cornelius Newton Bliss. In reply, the Association (which has a lease for next season) asked for an option on the opera house for $1,500,000 (one-third cash). Should the option contract be approved by the box holders, the Metropolitan would once more publicly pass the tin cup, as it did to keep going in 1933-35. But this time the Metropolitan might...
Last week the Detroit Symphony, needing $75,000 to complete a $280,000 budget for the approaching season, faced a problem much like the Metropolitan's. In its 25 years, the Symphony raised $4,000,000 by passing the hat. Half the donations came from twelve old Detroit families, headed by such men as Senator James Couzens, Motorman Roy Dikeman Chapin, Banker Julius Haass, Milkman Jerome Remick-all dead today. A newer generation of motor manufacturers, which never had much time for music, or which was left out of cultural shindigs in the old days, now sits...
...seventh annual All-Star game between the American League and the National League, baseball writers were ready to agree that their boy wonder, now 20, was all they had predicted. Chosen as one of the 25 players to represent the American League in the sport's mid-season classic, young Feller, suddenly waved into the game in the middle of the sixth inning to replace Tiger Tommy Bridges, found himself in a tough spot. The score was 3-to-1. The National Leaguers had the bases loaded-and only one man was out. Two runs would tie the score...
...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 Indian...