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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Falling to pieces in the last ten minutes of the final period the Yardling hockey team had to content themselves with a tie with Andover at the Arena yesterday. Entering the final period with the score two to one in their favor, the Freshmen scored twice in the first five minutes of play and then failed to withstand the five man attack of the Andover sextet which sank three goals to tie it up at four all. No overtime periods could be played since the time reserved in the Arena had elapsed...
...tones of its lower ranges come much closer than do her slightly saccharine, languishing looks, to expressing the pungency unstained by her throughout the play. She uses that voice of roar, chatter, rave allure, and when it breaks, to breaks. The combined effect is to give what Mr. Kelly twice defines, through the mouths of lovers, as color, to a character than would otherwise be rather insipid be cause of its indecision and repeated frustration. And so Miss Bankhead remains a completely fascinating exciting person throughout her dreary career of finding her romantic lover to be a rotted; her homely...
...scheduled transport plane at an average speed of 160 m.p.h. for 17 years, one month, three weeks and 21 hours before meeting with a fatal accident, according to official statistics of leading casualty and surety companies. These same figures show that a person has been approximately twice as safe this year on a regular airline than when he is driving his own automobile...
...beginning Otis bought from a few big holders some 5,000 shares of Murray Ohio Manufacturing Co., distributed the stock to customers as a likely investment. While the firm was selling the stock the market price went up. It stayed up, and last week was selling for about twice as much as the customer paid for it. SEC held that the stock had been manipulated with the idea of attracting buyers. Said Federal Judge Samuel H. West in Cleveland last week: "Many things have been done and are done by dealers desiring to influence others to purchase stock through manipulated...
...Patterson Houston, reputedly England's richest woman ($25,000,000); of heart disease; at Byron Cottage, Hampstead, England. A champion of British supremacy, in 1931 she gave $500,000 to enable Britain to win the last Schneider Cup Trophy air races, financed the 1933 flight over Mt. Everest, twice offered to donate $1,000,000 to strengthen the British Army & Navy...