Word: summered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Connie Mack "million dollar infield" of two decades ago was outspoken in his criticism of the attitude taken by college toward ball clubs who send players through school and then sign them up. A second peeve was intercollegiate restriction of undergraduates participating in semi-pro games during the summer and "maybe picking up a little spare cash...
...Summer Ball...
Pulling up its stake at Harvard, the Bureau for Street Traffic Research will move to New Haven this summer to train Yale graduates for professional work as traffic engineers...
...began to hanker after avocados, and in 1934-35 there was a bumper crop of 20,000,000 pounds which brought in $600,000 to California avocado growers. But last year there was another Big Freeze, which went hard with avocados. Ordinarily, the avocado harvest lasts through the summer, but by last week this season's harvest was over...
...receivership, Fierce-Arrow lost $3,000,000 in 1932 in the face of Depression and better cheap cars. In 1933 a group of Buffalo businessmen paid $1,000,000 for the Pierce plant, tried a $2,300 car (previously Pierces cost as much as $6,400), then trailers. Last summer, when the reorganization scheme was cooked up, the company was at a standstill, with no cars on the line, 25 employes in the factory, lots of red ink in the ledger. When the market crash last fall halted refinancing plans, the company took refuge in a 77 B reorganization...