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Despite a last quarter spurt by a spirited Indian squad, Coach Henry Lamar's Jayvee eleven finally emerged on the long end of a 19 to 13 count in a game played yesterday afternoon on rain-soaked Soldiers Field...
...spontaneously and unreasonably as buying had spurted, prices mounted. Sugar prices advanced from one to three cents a pound. Lard went up three cents, flour almost a cent. Meat wholesalers took advantage of the spurt in business by advancing veal, pork and beef prices from two to ten cents a pound. California canners upped canned fruit prices 5 to 30? a dozen...
Commodity exchanges went war-wild. Sugar and wheat, essentials for warring nations and their armies, got away in front and by the first day's end had advanced the maximum permissible limits set by the Commodity Exchange Administration (5 to 8 for wheat, for sugar). Popeyed at the spurt but calculating on still further rises, many a holder of wheat and sugar pulled out of the market, determined to hang on to his investment for still higher prices. As a result many buying orders were unfilled. Hides and lard boomed as they had not done since World War I, copper...
...less than at any time in six years, October cotton was quoted at New York for 1½? less than the week before. The auto industry was in its summer stagnation period. And out from under U. S. business was knocked 1939's firmest prop: building's spurt to new monthly highs. The Annalist reported that building-earlier in the year up some 70% from the 1938 low (adjusted seasonally), and almost 25% from the 1937 high-had declined for the second successive month, to the lowest level since July...
...American Henley which had been running all morning was climaxed in the afternoon by the most spectacular contest of the day, as the trailing Crimson 150's put on a breath-taking superman spurt to pass the Yale lightweights for a full length within the last quarter mile. This gave them the Wright...