Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orleans, Len Eshmont (No. 1 ground gainer last year) was swamped by Tulane's smashing Green Wave-and Fordham, pre-season pride of the East, was beaten (7-to-0) by a team from the Deep South for the second week in a row (last fortnight it lost to Alabama...
...captain of a prep-school (Terrill) football team that overwhelmed 114-0 another team on which played Bo McMillin and Red Weaver, stars of a great Centre College eleven a few years after; went on to Dartmouth with a football scholarship, made Walter Camp's All-America second team in his senior year. Meanwhile he had spent two years in France as a first lieutenant of Artillery...
...maid of 60, live on her annuities. This year she launched her Dnude Ranch at San Francisco's Fair-this time as proprietress, while other young women did the physical labor. By Sept. 30 she had netted $32,433. Meanwhile, business looked so good that she opened a second show, Gay Paree...
...coarse wool needed for carpets, the U. S. produces not a bit. All of it is imported. Chief U. S. supplier in 1937 was Argentina with 28,000,000 lbs., and China was second with 20,000,000. Because of the Japanese war, China's exports to the U. S. are now zero. Because of war in Europe, other suppliers of carpet wool have had their entire clip embargoed...
Last week, for a second time since September1, U. S. carpet prices were raised-a total increase of 10% since World War II began. Big carpet makers, like Bigelow-Sanford, Mohawk Carpet Mills, Alexander Smith Co., wondered where next year's carpet wool was coming from. War and embargoes had wiped out some 75% of the carpet wool supply. Meanwhile, after a deficit year in 1938 (Bigelow-Sanford lost $1,491,000, Mohawk $1,486,000), they stood to make a handsome inventory profit...