Word: swaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife who cried whenever he made a hit, hawk-faced Pepper Martin last week seemed highly pleased with himself and the World Series. Interviewed by fuzzy-headed Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who said he would like to change places with him, Pepper Martin retorted: "O. K. ... If you'll swap your $50,000 a year for my $4,500."* When St. Louis won the seventh and deciding game last week, it was the first time a National League team had won the World Series since 1926, when St. Louis beat the New York Yankees. It was a series notable, with...
...least a year. After that time the Board would market its coffee at the rate of 62,500 bags per month through "established channels." If coffee prices rise in the next twelve months the Farm Board will be able to show a worthwhile profit on the swap...
Study & Work. Half of Antioch's 650 students were absent last week, for Antioch divides its undergraduates into A and B groups, sends the A's off for five or ten weeks while the B's study on the campus. Then the groups swap places. Because study time is thus interrupted, the course lasts six years, though bright students may finish in five. Antioch was the first Liberal Arts college to adopt this co-operative plan, previously employed in the University of Cincinnati Engineering School...
...farm demonstration service, now taken over by the U. S. Government. A truck goes through Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi carrying instructors who teach the Negro farmer how to improve his farm, his wife how to manage the farmhouse. Tuskegee attempts to better the quality of local livestock: it will swap a pedigreed cow, chicken, hog with a farmer, take in exchange his meaner stock for its larder. Tuskegee sponsors the only clinic in the U. S. where Negro doctors may meet and discuss their special problems; last week 300 Negro physicians & surgeons attended the annual meeting...
...Liberty Loan Act from $20,000,000,000 to $28,000,000,000. This eight-billion increase plus a $1,300,000,000 margin left from the War will give the Secretary of the Treasury ample room to turn around in when he asks Liberty bondholders to swap their securities for new ones...