Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indian, who is so popular that when he pitches the club's advertisements say: "Dizzy Dean - in person." While pitching, Gomez chews gum. He throws with an easy overhand motion, balancing the backswing of his left hand with the upswing of a size-13 cleated shoe. The dignity and competence of his demeanor contrast strangely with the stories of his eccentricities. These are partly true, partly the framework of legend invented to support another one of baseball's superstitions, that all left-handed pitchers are a trifle crazy...
...Roosevelt last week authorized General Johnson to strike out the price fixing and trade practice provisions in the codes of service industries. Next day General Johnson promptly performed the permitted operation on seven codes: 1) cleaning & dyeing; 2) automobile storage and parking; 3) barbers: 4) bowling and billiards; 5) shoe rebuilding; 6) advertising display installations: 7) advertising distribution. This stripped these codes to the bare bone of wage, hour, child labor, and collective bargaining clauses which service industries must still obey. Local groups may write prices back into their local codes provided 85% of their members agree, but no longer...
...wisdom of lopping the ancient kingdom of Bohemia and surrounding Slavic territories from the prostrate body of Austro-Hungary to make a new republic. It so happened that this territory contained the rich rolling plains of Slovakia, the great Skoda munitions works, the potent Bat'a shoe factories, rich coal deposits, glass and steel works and the famed breweries of Pilsen...
Intra-mural contests between the Crimson and the Blue arrive at the climax of the season today when two Harvard inter-House champions come up against their traditional Yale rivals. Leverett, leaders of the House tennis circuit by a mere shoe-string edge over the Lowell netmen, and Brooks, champions of the crews, make big medicine this afternoon in their respective bids for supremacy...
...capital. Since October when the Federal Trade Commission began to segregate reorganization from new issues, registration of new securities amounted to $460,000,000, of which less than $80,000,000 was actually passed on to the public. Of the other $380,000,000, some were shoe string promotions which never got beyond the Commission files, some were privately sold, some will take years to peddle. The rest gathers dust in corporation vaults. The three most notable cases of new industrial financing under the Securities Act were: American Water Works & Electric for $15,000,000; Mathieson Alkali...