Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gauding closely, the home contingent slowly gave ground to the Indian quintet until the opening of the second half, when a Crimson scoring spree carried to within three points of the victors. Jack Carroll, brilliant Hanover forward, single-handedly repulsed this foray; and two later rallies, with right-handed heaves that floated through the meshes from every angle on the floor...
Olson, the Green center, is the leading point-gatherer of the Eastern Intercollegiate League, the loop in which the Harvard five now occupies fifth position. Monroe is a speedy forward whose scoring spree was stopped but once this year, and this halt was called by the Crimson guards in the January upset...
Expecting a post-holiday reaction from the Christmas buying spree, U.S. retailers found to their surprise that the spree is still going on. In the first week of January, department-store sales were 26% above 1941; in the second week, a fabulous 32%. Less than half this rise can be attributed to higher prices. At their regular January white sales, department store counters were jammed with hoarders, laying in supplies of everything from cotton sheets to wool socks...
Same week, members of the National Retail Dry Goods Assn. gathered in Manhattan for their 31st annual meeting, 6,000 strong, to discuss wartime retail problems. They knew their record 1941 prosperity was not likely to last out 1942. They had been on a sort of spree themselves, selling the fat off a nation long pouchy with surpluses. Their 1942 problems: 1) to find enough goods to sell; 2) not to be caught overstocked by a reaction when hoarders go home sated, or when other consumers are kept home by higher prices and taxes...
Dunster went on a scoring spree as Eli Berman, Winston Lucke, and Phil Hammentt got together to score 31 points in downing Dudley 36 to 13. The Ramblers played a sloppy brand of ball with George MacDonald high scorer with four points, followed by Leonard Kilfoyle and Konnie Valasopoulos with two apiece...