Word: dependability
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Most baseball umpires depend on their tongues and fists for protection against irate ballplayers. Umpire Bill Wilson was better equipped one night last week, when, at Fort Worth during a game between the San Antonio Missions and the Fort Worth Cats, the whole Mission team sprang toward him when, in the ninth, with the score tied, he called a Fort Worth player safe at home. Mr. Wilson instinctively pulled a knife...
Reason the dealers are so upset is that they depend on the high (in most cases, two-dollar) prices charged for Red Seal Classical records to give them their profits, feeling that the jazz helps only slightly, and serves more as a "loss-leader" or traffic enticement. In other words, It's very hard to run a store on just jazz records alone, unless you have a tremendous volume of business. The dealers are afraid that people will but the lower-priced, lower-profit-making Black Label, and endanger their greatest source of profit...
...tell us why he has done it. He has never stated exactly what stake, political and economic, this country has in an Allied victory. He has not said yes or no to the question of whether we should advance credit to the Allies. The country has to depend on "inside" newspaper stories to find out. The Government says a well-informed public opinion is necessary to an intelligent foreign policy, but does nothing to inform...
...Before leaving Gary," Sendak stated. "I often campaigned by chasing fire engines. Wherever a crowd gathered I would start a stump speech and hand out campaign literature. Now that I am away from the scene, I have to depend on the work which is being carried on by friends and supporters who have organized a number of 'Sendak for Joint State Representative' clubs...
...Balkan nations had little choice in the matter. The great cereal bowl of the Danube sends Germany in peacetime some 50% of its produce, and though blockade and winter have so far hampered movement, the German demand has greatly increased since war began. Almost exclusively agricultural, the Balkans depend in turn on Germany for industrial goods. Every Balkan nation lives in fear of some sort of revisionist aggression. Caught in a triangle more tragic than any dramatist could invent, Central Europe depends on Germany, fears Russia, looks to Italy for police protection. After the Finnish collapse, Scandinavia too fell under...