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...property, agents had had to scurry as far afield as Rio de Janeiro, and had had to garnish their cash with promises. Example: one owner, who pocketed a certified check for $250,000, wanted to remain on his job as elevator operator as long as his building stayed...
From then on business boomed. Kahn set up his own shop (Weatherman Co.), took on 80 employes. The U.S. Weather Bureau attested to the gadget's accuracy. Ships Service at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station ordered five gross. Other orders flocked in from as far afield as South Africa, South America, the Far East. At $1.69 apiece, the weather houses grossed $70,000 in 1942, $350,000 the next year, $800,000 last year. Production has reached a rate of 6,500 units...
...flunked the batting test. Afield he showed a minor talent, too. His aim was erratic and he had to be moved from shortstop to second base for the easier peg to first. All he seemed to have was dazzling speed on the bases and a modest, earnest attitude that quickly put him in solid with his white Montreal teammates...
...intramural campaign by trouncing Lowell 20 to 8 yesterday, in a free-swinging contest which found fielding and pitching at a low ebb. Dick Steuer twirled for the Funsters and did not fare too badly on the earned-run count. Several Dunster four-baggers were tainted with errors afield, while Bob Morgan poled out a prodigious homer for the losers with one mate aboard...
Spreading themselves beyond the realm of Greater Boston, '01 and '26 reunions will center around the Cliff Hotel at Scituate, while '31 will go as far afield as Poland Spring, Maine, for its fifteenth. Members of '31 left yesterday noon on special cars of the "Flying Yankee"; they will return tomorrow in time for the baseball game...