Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pine by no means amounts to a monopoly. Britain's dominion over rubber plants, however, is the most extensive in the world. In the early 1920's rubber-growing Britons sought to control, through the notorious Stevenson plan, the world's rubber market. They managed to stretch rubber prices to $1.23 per lb., but when the restriction scheme collapsed the price did not stop shrinking until it hit 3? per lb. early last year. Chief reason for the plan's failure was not Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover's inveighing against it but lack...
...last weekend. When Harvard played that same Lion outfit on April 24, the result was a 4-1 victory and a 6-2 defeat. On that occasion, the last game the weather-man permitted Mitchell's proteges, Loughlin was in top form, while Braggiotti who was pitching his second stretch in three days, wasn't quite up to what he had shown against Tufts and Providence...
Encountering two of its stiffest adversaries, Columbia and Pennsylvania, in the short space of two days, 9 members of the undefeated Varsity not team accompanied by Coach Harry Cowles and Manager Alden Bryan left town yesterday in an endeavor to stretch their winning streak to five straight. The Crimson racquet wielders will meet Pennsylvania at Philadelphia this afternoon and Columbia at New York tomorrow afternoon. The Harvard players who went on the trip are S. Ellsworth Davenport, III, '34, John F. Ray '34, Frank W. Jones, Jr. '35, Franklin P. Whitbeck '35, August C. Helmholz '36, Germain G. Glidden...
There were mysterious doings in the vicinity of Boise City, Okla. last week. An inventor from California, his assistant and a handful of Santa Fe Railroad officials gathered on a lonely stretch of Santa Fe track for a secret test. When the secret was divulged in part, it appeared that two handcars coupled together had traveled seven miles on power transmitted by radio...
...went along at the same steady pace. Bissell was on the verge of tears in the driver's seat, pleading, shouting, and threatening. But the stroke remained the same. Suddenly Cassedy noticed landmarks that told him he was on the finishing stretch...