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Yesterday afternoon was rather amazing. In the first place, more than 7000 people actually went down to Kindle-stick Park to watch the Harvard-Yale baseball game. Secondly, in the middle of June these hearty alumni were subjected to near arctic weather that would have driven a sensible polar bear into hibernation. Third, Paul Del Rossi struck out seven in a row but nearly found himself en route to the shower room for wildness. The band was in tune...
...Arctic cold wave that swept into the South and Southwest this winter has produced some chilly news for U.S. housewives: they are paying more for citrus fruits and juices, and probably will pay more for a long time. Because of the damage to groves and fresh fruit caused by the freakish cold, the price of oranges is already up from 20? to 24? a pound, and the price of frozen orange juice has jumped from 20? to 30? a can. If the housewife has cause to complain, the citrus industry's laments are somewhat muted. For an industry chronically...
...howling gale from the Arctic icebox collided over Western Europe with warm, moist winds from the Mediterranean. The result: the most savage winter storms of the century...
...third largest retailer.* There are now big Bay department stores in Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary, Red Deer, Edmonton, Vancouver and Victoria, as well as 33 smaller "Bay Stores" in cities under 30,000 population, 185 "Northern Stores'' in upcountry towns, and 30 trading outposts, nearly all above the Arctic Circle...
Survival Test. So sharply has the Bay changed that when Chester wanted to give his protégé Murray the toughest training the company could offer, he did not send him to the Arctic to deal with the Eskimos, but down to the New York fur auction to see how he would survive among the Seventh Avenue furriers. Murray succeeded so well that today the Bay's New York fur auction is the world's largest; ironically, though, it handles no wild fur-only tame, ranch-bred varieties...