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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indicated that more is at stake than a successful cross country season. With definite Olympic possibilities like Don Trimble and Sam Felton returning next spring in the field events, the Harvard coach plans to use the forthcoming harrier season as a means of revitalizing his anemic middle distance and distance forces so they can keep pace with the high point...
...indicated that more is at stake than a successful cross country season. With definite Olympic possibilities like Don Trimble and Sam Felton returning next spring in the field events, the Harvard coach plans to use the forthcoming harrier season as a means of revitalizing his anemic middle distance and distance forces so they can keep pace with the high point...
Loosened Grip. Another wartime restriction died quietly when the Department of Commerce removed the restrictions on the use of natural rubber for some 30,000 industrial products. Unaffected by the new ruling were automobile tires and tubes, whose natural-rubber content will continue to be fixed (23% for pleasure cars). By maintaining its control over the automobile industry's rubber supply, which accounts for 72% of U.S. rubber consumption, the Department hopes to keep at least part of the U.S. synthetic rubber industry operating...
...Railroader Robert R. Young, whose Chesapeake & Ohio is one of the 57 railroads that now own Pullman, informally rapped ICC.* "It's a pity," said he, "that the company is getting an 'increase in fares on the old junk that's now in use...
...represented; later hands include George Borrow and the Edinburgh lawyer, William Roughead, whom many connoisseurs consider the dean of crime writers. Neither police nor detectives in the modern sense existed in the 18th Century. Parish constables were amateurs serving a term, and parish watchmen were aged criers, of small use in chasing or collaring villains. Novelist Henry Fielding, while a magistrate, founded London's "Bow Street runners" to pursue criminals- the catch being that the criminal had to be reported before he got out of sight. The professional "thief taker" was not a public official but a shady individual...