Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dudley and Kirkland went into first and second places in the House football league as the Commuters trounced Eliot 18 to 0, and the Deacons took Adams into camp by a 14 to 0 score...
...making sales last week was Steel, whose customers will be amply stocked against any possible famine if only they can get delivery on orders already placed. Chief worry of the industry right now is how to keep the operating rate (last week: 87.5%, this week 88.6%; buying by consumers took up about 70%) above 85% of nominal capacity without dangerously deferring repairs, cracking up expensive new machinery, running shaky old machinery into the ground. Even small marginal companies like Tycoon J. H. Hillman Jr.'s Pittsburgh Steel Co. were defying the rule of producing with 85% of capacity...
...hour basis, with no prices guaranteed for longer, is sick old King Coal. Exports (mostly to neutrals' deprived of coal supplies from belligerents) are competing with forward buying by worried U. S. fuel users. Hampton Roads (Va.), which has not been a big coal port for years, took foal from Pocahontas mines at the rate of 433,066 tons a week (current Pocahontas weekly production: 6-to-700,000 tons a week). Hampton Roadsters worked days, nights and Sundays loading ship holds and bunkers. Pennsylvania Railroad's Norfolk & Western Railway has been setting a new coal loading record...
...victory at Brihuega in March 1937. Bessie's personal story of eight months in the Lincoln Battalion begins in February 1938, six weeks before the battalion was cut to pieces in the Fascist drive to the sea. The author, a gifted short story writer and ex-Guggenheim fellow, took part in that retreat and later in the last desperate offensive across the Ebro River...
...stellar performance of tailback Don McNicol, Skip Stahley's Yardlings took Worcester into camp Saturday, 19 to 0. The schoolboys never seriously threatened to score; it was the Crimson...