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While Bill Daughaday and Tudor Gardiner mangled their men in the end of the afternoon, their combined ten points didn't give the Crimson enough score to beat the Columbia outfit. The victors' five referee's decisions were enough to let them hold a two point margin. Daughday's man threw in the towel after two minutes of wrestling when he had a shoulder wrenched, and Gardiner flattened...
...October 1916, the Hindenburg program for increased industrial and mining output was launched. That connoted a margin of productive capacity. This time German industries are producing at full capacity, can increase substantially only by finding fresh capital-and capital is scarce. There was also a severe labor shortage even before war began...
They did not smirk because Sears, Roebuck (1939 sales: about 23% over 1938) and Montgomery Ward (1939 sales: about 15% over 1938) were reported holding nearly the same margin over 1939, although both announced higher prices for the spring. Nor because January retail grocery sales, best in rural areas, were running 5% ahead of 1939. Nor because retail auto sales declined less than half as much as is "normal" in January, kept 26.6% ahead...
...with the commendable clocking of 4:59.4, much to the satisfaction of Coach UlcnMax Kraus and Roger Willcox finished second and third behind Dartmouth's Potter in the breastroke, and then a reserve Crimson 400-yard relay team dropped the final event to the Green quartet by a decisive margin. Potter's time was 1:39.9, while the relay was caught...
...iron-man stunt reminiscent of Charlie Hutter's 100-220-440 feat against Yale in 1937. Curwen was under orders to loaf as much as possible in the first two events and in the final contest his teammates labored to hand him at least a two second margin over his opponent...