Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Chicago other tycoons got together at the seventh annual conference of major industries. Most of them were optimistic for the long-pull. George Matthew Verity, benevolent president of American Rolling Mill Co., declared: "The steel industry is like a great giant tied and pulling at its shackles. It is impatient to go. And go he will within a comparatively short time." "A successful and prosperous year in 1931" was predicted by Harvey Samuel Firestone Jr., polo-playing young vice president of Firestone Tire & Rubber...
...Seventh annual National Corn Husking Contest; at Norton, Kans. Corn-husking record...
Wherever two or three tycoons were gathered together last week, they made speeches about the state-of-the-nation, all as optimistic as possible (see p. 18). Most important gathering was the Seventh Conference of Major Industries, in Chicago. Most arresting contribution there came from President Robert Elkington Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co. He recited the following little-realized facts, significant to students of the nation's buying power...
...Thirty-seventh birthday of King Prajadhipok of Siam...
Captain Chester Olmstead of the Springfield team was the first to cross the line, while the next four Springfield runners placed in sixth, seventh, tenth, and eleventh. The score of the meet was as follows: Springfield 35, Boston College 48, Holy Cross 70, Amherst 142, Harvard (entered informally), 166, Boston University 220, Massachusetts Aggies 226, Clark University 303, and Northeastern 321. The first Harvard man to finish placed seventeenth