Word: slump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ticknor, who has just received a shipment of five new bats, will occupy the clean-up position in the batting order. McCaffrey is now lead-off man, Mays having gone into a slump since he broke his favorite hickory...
...this southern area run about $12,000,000 per year, all of which Mr. Wrigley is ready to invest in cotton and leave in the South. If the South buys enough Wrigley gum, the company will be able to purchase its 200,000 bale quota. If gum sales slump, less cotton will be taken off the market. If during the plan's operation cotton goes above 12? per Ib. the Wrigley company will withdraw as a buyer and sell at a profit. If the market falls below current prices, it will use its cotton for packing instead of excelsior...
...sides. A laborer is lucky to make $150 per year. Hookworm and tubercu- losis take a heavy toll. The hurricane of 1928 (called "San Filipe" by the natives) struck the island a $100,000,000 blow from which it is still staggering. The 1929 sugar price slump hit the island's chief source of income. Tourist trade, despite the fine big Condado-Vanderbilt Hotel in San Juan, is negligible because Porto Rico, as part of the U. S., is nominally Dry. Even the natives' greatest sport?cock fighting?is illegal, although this month the insular Senate passed a bill...
...playing in hard luck, with Captain Paul Snyder just recovering from an attack of appendicitis. Coach Rufus Bond reports a return to form in the recent games which the Providence men lost to Yale, Princeton, Rhode Island, Colgate, and Dartmouth, all of which have strong teams. Previous to their slump the Bruins took eight games straight, with Captain Snyder starring as a scorer. HARVARD 1934 BROWN 1934 Ferriter, r.f. r.f., Smith Merry, l.f. l.f., Connell Huntington, c. c., Strand Nevins, r.g. l.g., Hammer Cary, l.g. r.g., Clark...
Since Christmas the book market has been characterized not so much by a decrease in the number of books published as by a very definite slump in their quality. This is especially noticeable in the field of fiction and there can hardly be said to have appeared one single novel of any great importance or significance since the first of the year. The period has produced a number of freaks and curiosities and also several books of lurid titles and erotic content such as "Naked on Roller Skates" and Mr. Hecht's "A Jew In Love." Needless...