Word: w
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...W. G. PRIEST London
Industry argued that it had to make a profit when it could; fat years make up for the lean. But Secretary of Commerce W. Averell Harriman and his advisers pointed out the situation in which industry now found itself. They earnestly suggested that industry cut prices before it was too late. Too late would be that moment when buyers had been priced out of the market and prices broke and collapsed. It was a question of easing the pressure now or spinning head on into another depression...
Falling Forelock. Republicans were bitterly regretting their overconfidence of last November, when they figured that they could win with anybody. Governor Dwight Green had thereupon picked a nobody-a political unknown, Russell W. Root. A big, bumbling bear of a man notable only for his party loyalty, his amiability, and his political ritualism ("I'll go along"), Root's undistinguished career as lawyer and minor public servant did not stand up well under comparison with Kennelly...
...December, when wintry winds whistle up the gorge at Harpers Ferry and the temperature nears zero, the bush-league horse-racing circuit shivers to a halt at Charles Town, W. Va. It is the end of the line for gyp (short for gypsy) horsemen and their broken-down nags. Hibernating in the stalls there, the gyps nail up blankets and newspapers to keep out the cold. The swank comforts of Hialeah and Santa Anita are not for them. But this year, for the first time, the gyps went south for the winter. A race track, refurbished lor them, opened...
...Baseball team, Coach Adolph W. Samborski '25 has plotted a schedule that includes five games in five days. On Tuesday the squad meets Maryland, on Wednesday and Thursday Navy, and on Friday faces Pennsylvania in the Crimson's first Intercollegiate League contest since 1943. The trip will end Saturday with a tilt at West Point...