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...balls are absolutely identical with the exception of the cover. The centre, the yarn, the winding, is exactly the same for both balls. When, however, the cover is put on, the regular type of cover is furnished for the American League, but for the National League a little thicker horsehide is used which necessitates a heavier thread in sewing. This change was made at the request of the National League several years ago and at that time it was publicly announced. There has never been any secrecy. Every one of these balls is made with infinite care to effect perfect...
...realize the important part the ball plays in the game and having been entrusted for so many years with the manufacture of this ball we have spared no pains to have them uniform in every respect. The slightly thicker cover of the National League ball does tend to make it a trifle less lively but the difference is indeed a small one, as the batting averages show...
...bought Hiram Walker last year at $2 a share and sold last week at $56; of how you could have bought National Distillers last spring for $17 and sold it last week for $117; of how Canadian Industrial Alcohol jumped from $2.50 to $24. These were facts. But thicker flew the rumors of how this company or that planned to enter the whiskey business, reap fat profits from the fact that Americans are proverbially a whiskey-drinking people. And the stockmarket soared to New Deal highs. Standard Brands lately announced that it might make...
...World Monetary and Economic Conference was a hero last week to his people. Russia's roly-poly Maxim Maximovich Litvinov. While the Conference proper stewed over stabilization (see p.15), Comrade Litvinov bustled busily around London attending to three major outside jobs. In his thick Jewish English and even thicker French he bargained with statesmen of at least eight nations, closed a thumping deal with Professor Raymond Moley. The professor's wallet seemed to contain last week chiefly U. S. $20 bills. Short of English money, he once or twice was seen to borrow taxi fare. In his talks...
Recently three Japanese crabbers, from the fishing vessel Fumi Maru, were said to have attempted to land at Cape Kronotsky, Kamchatka, in a small boat in search for water. Spy scares are thicker than crabs on the cape. A Soviet patrol was reported to have surprised them, shot them down. In Moscow Japanese Ambassador Tamekichi Ota instantly demanded permission for the Japanese Consul at Petropavlovsk to board the Japanese destroyer Tachikaze, visit the scene of the affair and make a report. It was refused on the grounds that the Tachikaze was a warship, but the Consul was given permission...