Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Week before the Thompson shift General Hugh S(amuel) Johnson walked out on Scripps-Howard's United Feature Syndicate (which discovered his unsuspected literary talents six years ago), signed up (at a reputed $50,000 a year) with Hearst's King Features. Explained the General, whose string has fallen more than 10% since election and his strong isolationist stand: "Some Scripps-Howard papers didn't seem to be very-sympathetic and I didn't want them to have to carry the column when they didn't want to." One such paper was the Tyler...
...Shift of Emphasis...
...tons in 1941-42. Second "if" was coke: its output, already a bottleneck, must be increased by 8,031,000 tons. Third "if" was allocation of orders: maximum production, said Dunn, can be reached only if orders are spread evenly throughout the industry. Fourth "if" was a shift back to Bessemer steel: little-used old Bessemer ovens should be put to making steel for barbed wire, nails, low-grade pipe...
...remaining courses, the usual program is to select one out of 3, 4, and 6, and some other courses. And perhaps the best polloy is to select according to the men teaching the courses, your year. Unfortunately for this analysis, these men shift...
Harvard was sporting a 40 to 28 lead going into the final relay, and a make shift Crimson quartet nipped the Gymnast first stringers in a close race. Quarter-miler Tiny Gorman led off for Harvard and picked up a small lead against Pincombe; Bill Jay added to the margain against Hatch; Dick Harris lost ground to Beck; and Tom Shrewsbury preserved the narrow lead he had inherited right to the finish...