Word: ups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the recent Congressional debate on neutrality, the slick shipping lobbies worked with might and main to modify the ironclad "carry" provisions backed by the Administration. They got nowhere, but they didn't give up. So, as soon as the Neutrality Act was passed, they bobbed up again with a...
Mainstays of the Crimson's victory push were Langy Burwell, Jim Lightbody, and Gene Clark, who finished closely bunched up in third, fourth and fifth places. Penn Tuttle's eighth place and Dick Wing's seventeenth clinched the case for the Mikkolamen, as Dave Simboll and Joe McLoughlin finished out...
Chief Crimson surprises were the amazing performance of Lightbody, a virtual novice at cross country, and Simboli's failure to finish up with the leaders after heading the pack for most of the first half-of the five-mile run, sometimes by over 50 yards.
But the biggest upset was Emery Wingerter's performance. The Cornell Senior cannily rated himself well off the pace in the early stages of the run, worked himself up into first shortly after the half-way mark, and blasted across the finish line three seconds ahead of Yale's Bill...
While American shipping concerns do not all have subsidiary organizations in other countries, any firm could set up a temporary "dummy" corporation in a Central or South American nation, and thus make a shift of registration a mere formality, he pointed out.