Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...House passed its third and fourth appropriation bills: one for Treasury-Post Office supply, after cutting it $11,491,900, 9% below Mr. Roosevelt's budget; another a $58,505,100 urgent deficiency bill (half for naval armaments, half for income-tax refunds), after lopping...
Secretary of State Hull had protested in strongly measured language, got no satisfactory answer. To a note in which he conceded the right of the British to search parcel-post packages at Gibraltar but complained that U. S. ships had been discriminated against, subjected to unreasonable delay, he got no answer at all. Last week, banning the shipment of "articles or materials" by air mail, the U. S. indicated that it thereby removed any further excuse for a repetition of the Bermuda incident...
...turn. Heading the list is Lou Clay, ranking Freshman hurler last spring, while Lefty Sullivan and Burgy Ayres are two other highly rated second-year men. Les Pitchford may also come in for some twirling duty, but his stick work is liable to earn him a starting out-field post...
Champion Hopper's book contains, in addition to lucid dope on openings, cross-board tactics, traps and end-game maneuvers, a chapter illustrating ten games in which experts lambaste dubs. Sympathetic post-mortems diagnose, slip by slip, just where the dubs let the experts bring on the two, three, and four-for-one Blitzkriegs that usually wind up such games. The particular Blitzkrieg Champion Hopper is scheming in the cut above is a six-for-two "in-and-out" shot...
...leading the market down was Wall Street's No. 1 counter, U. S. Steel. From 1938 until last summer Big Steel was called the highest-priced stock on the board because its price was more than infinity times its (zero) earnings. Last week Dow-Jones estimated that the post-peace steel rush had netted Big Steel $2.70 a share for the year on its common (which would justify a price of $27 on the conventional ten-times-earnings basis). Steel responded by dropping from...