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...appetite of 80 of the freshman had previously been satisfied, however, by 15 gallons of beer at an afternoon cocktall party given by candidates Otto F. Grote, Stephen R. Rubel, John Kean, and Wolcott H. Johnson...
...soon be scraping the bottom of its financial barrel. Additional funds must be made available . . . if the Government is to keep its promises . . . to the American farmer under the present price support program." With these politicking words for the folks on the farm, Michigan's Republican Congressman Jesse Wolcott, 28 years in Congress as "a friend of the farmer," last week suggested a bill to raise the CCC's borrowing power to $5.7 billion, an increase of a cool $1 billion...
...higher productivity, they said. Furthermore, the rate of steel production had dropped 15% in the last six months and profits were down. Some small companies, like Lukens Steel Co., insisted that they could not afford to pay increases at the current rate of earnings. Said Lukens' Robert Wolcott: "Wage increases can't be paid out of past profits . . . [In] the four-week . . . period ending July 9, 1949 . . . Lukens . . . showed a net loss...
...grew bigger as the game went on. Harvard touched Wolcott's fancy curve ball for just three hits--two of them by Herbie Neal--and only four base-runners reached second. Three infield outs and a strikeout quelled these "threats...
...Wolcott is probably the best pitcher Harvard has faced this season. Besides his tricky curve ball, he showed fine control and more than adequate speed. He even picked a man off first...