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Even before the bridge was reached there was little doubt as to the outcome. After an early spurt the Fifties gave way to a smooth-stroking Freshman boat which finished five seconds behind the Varsity. A B.U. shell which challenged the Tech men all the way provided the thrills for the scanty crowd that spotted the banks and bridges...

Author: By D. ALDRICH Brown, | Title: Bolles' Crews Sweep Three Enemy Eights | 10/24/1942 | See Source »

Unfortunately, some storekeepers bought too much of the wrong things. Expecting a wartime marriage spurt, they stocked heavily on furniture, later discovered that only one bride in three is buying her furniture now. But babies come just the same. So the demand for carriages, strollers, bassinets, etc., is terrific-the supply small. On the other side of the store, row after row of radios and refrigerators are a drug on the market, partly because consumers bought so many of them last year. (July refrigerator sales in New York City stores plummeted 88% below last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boom Until Christmas | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...from one city to another) will have their trucking-as-usual sharply restricted. Many will find that their trucks are needed elsewhere, will lease them to operators short of equipment. The area of distribution for many a product will go back to 100 years ago. Result: local industry will spurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Save the Tires | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...White House operator apologized, for disturbing Mr. Roosevelt, but Secretary Knox was on the wire, insisting. When the President was told by his Secretary of the Navy that bombs were raining down upon Pearl Harbor, his instant reflex action was a cry of "No!" Later in a sudden spurt of anger he told Buzz that what the Japanese had just done was neither "decent nor Christian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. President, Buzz, et al. | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

Burton exhausted himself in his second-set spurt, and Dunlop, after losing the first game, won the next five in a row. Ec A instructor Dunlop played on the University of California team in 1934 in the number three spot...

Author: By Melvin J. Kessel, | Title: SEMI-FINALS COMPLETED IN UNIVERSITY TENNIS TOURNEY | 8/28/1942 | See Source »

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