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Whatever may happen "when the war is over," the wool industry last week was neither in need of tariff favors nor in danger of price cutting. It was in the midst of making a cleanup out of the war. For wool is a real war commodity-needed for soldiers' uniforms, overcoats, blankets. The U. S. has no wool surplus and the British Empire has forbidden wool exports outside of the Empire. Besides raw wool, millions of yards of woolens normally imported from Britain (1938 imports: 4,800,000 sq. yds.) will have to be made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CROPS: Good Clip | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...administrative fields where the Legislature could not hamstring him, Culbert Olson did what he promised, started a cleanup of workmen's compensation administration, building & loan scandals, other dung-heaps in the backyard which he had inherited from old Frank Merriam. To the $30-Every-Thursday Ham-&-Eggers who helped install him, he promised a special election to give their pension plan a chance this fall, talked of tacking to it a proposal to recall the legislators who wrecked his program. Culbert Olson hoped to be to California what he thinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Olson's Luck | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Bill Parsons is the regular backstop and another main cog in the Samborski nine. One of the two setbacks the Yardlings received came with Parsons and Ed Buckley absent from the lineup for a spring football game. Buckley holds down first base and bats in the cleanup spot. Soft-spoken Gil Whittemore is a dependable hot-corner custodian and little Jim Lynch from Bolmont High is on second. Bud Finegan is the regular shortstop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1942 Batters Flash More Power Than Any Yardling Nine Has for Three Years | 5/19/1939 | See Source »

Chief punch in the Harvard lineup is provided by Art Johns as leadoff man and Lupe Lupien in the cleanup position who are both hitting well over .400. Fulton, Hoye, and Grondahl, all in the .300 bracket, should also worry Princeton's Lefty Farber, leading Tiger moundsman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEALEY SEEKS FOURTH WIN IN TIGER BATTLE | 4/28/1939 | See Source »

...nation's program of social and economic reform is . . . a part of defense as basic as armaments themselves. . . ." As part of "realistic national preparedness" during the last six years he listed conservation and development of natural resources, public health and welfare, agricultural aid, evolution of labor, credit system cleanup, morale-building among youth and the aged. He concluded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dictators Challenged | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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