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...Crimson pucksters defeated Rindge Tech by the decisive margin of 8-1 in their opening game of the season. This will be Belmont Hill's first engagement...
...employed in what is usually known as "the numbers." Credited with having put the numbers on a big-business basis was the late Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer.* In pennies, nickels, dimes, dollars, mostly from the poor, the money pours into the underworld in an ever-golden stream. The profit margin is high, for while the odds are 1000-to-1, the payoff is usually 600-to-1. Moreover, the runner generally gets 10% of the winnings as commission and an additional tip is in order. Welching is common, and since the use of the track as the basis...
...match with the Harvard Graduates, the varsity class "A" squash team was victorious by the narrow margin of 3-2 today. The most important of the contests was the one between John C. Develin '38 and Dean Chauncey. Develin finally won out, taking three games out of four. Other Harvard winners were Captain Richard D. Dorson and Alvah W. Sulloway, who defeated Lyman Olmstead and Sebert 1d. Davenport '34 respectively...
...Packers missed the League's Western Division championship by the margin of one point, having failed to kick a goal after a touchdown against the Chicago Cardinals. This year they played ten games in a row without a similar omission. The Packers lost their second game of the season, 30-to-3, against the Chicago Bears, in Green Bay's City Stadium. The humiliation was so extreme that they won every game thereafter until they clinched the Western Division championship last fortnight...
...products and types of illustration and copy. He created a department to study the costs of business getting, cut them down to about 5% of the price of each item compared to the usual 10% in mail-order houses. He discovered and concentrated on lines with the greatest profit margin: furniture, stoves, tires, men's clothes. And he developed Spiegel's two cardinal policies: 1) sell everything on credit; 2) sell more goods to fewer customers...