Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...succeeded in getting a hit. Even hard-boiled sportswriters screamed "Come on, kid!" as the seventh inning began with young Vander Meer walking two batters. But Vander Meer, revolving through his elaborate windup and mixing his dazzling fast ball and his baffling curve, got out of that tight spot. In the ninth, young Vander Meer walked three more Dodgers. A tense silence settled over the stands as Manager Bill McKechnie, a smart manager of pitchers, strode out to the box and whispered in Vander Meer's ear. Regaining control, Vander Meer made Ernie Koy hit a grounder...
...March 1933, when Moody's spot commodity price index stood at 88, Franklin Roosevelt announced that commodity prices should go up. By March 1937, they had reached 220 on Moody's Index. Then Franklin Roosevelt announced that commodity prices were too high, thereby touched off a world-wide break in prices which many economists now consider the beginning of Depression II. Last February, when Moody's Index stood at 150, Franklin Roosevelt again sounded off on commodity prices, declared that with certain exceptions such as building materials they were again too low, should go up. This time...
...some 13,000,000 bales and already have a carryover of nearly that much. Last fortnight cotton prices slumped to all-time lows, since then have partially recovered- mainly on rumors of crop-damage from heavy rains in the cotton belt, minor floods in the dust bowl. Last week, spot cotton in New Orleans sold for 8.34? a lb. above the price the week before, but well below the 1933-37 level. While 1938 exports are up slightly from last year, U. S. cotton mills have cut production and world consumption for this season is down 13%. In all likelihood...
...mountainous South Tyrol sticks out as the weakest spot in the Berlin-Rome axis. Promise of this 30-mile, largely vertical strip along the Italian-Austrian border was part of the secret deal which in 1915 brought the Kingdom of Italy into the World War against her former Central Powers allies. No minorities treaty was signed by Italy, but until minority-hating Fascism's advent there was little oppression of the German population. In 1923 a determined program of oppressive "Italianization" was inaugurated. In the district's schools only Italian teachers conducting lessons in Italian were allowed. Germanic...
...compared to 12,400,000 in 1936, 10,630,000 in 1935. With a carryover of 14,000,000 bales from last year, this bumper crop can mean but one thing-low prices. In 1936, average price for cotton was 12.3? a bale; in 1935, 11.1?. Last week the spot price of cotton in New Orleans tumbled to 7.88?, lowest it has ever been in terms of the pre-New Deal gold dollar...