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...while last winter Burditt was shifted to forward when Hugh Hyde, tallest man on the squad with his six feet, four inches, put on a late scoring spree. Brown has decided to put Burditt back at the pivot spot this year and let Hyde use his height to retrieve the ball from enemy backboards from a guard position...
Pawnbrokers find the goods that cross their counters a reflection of the times. In 1932 business was rotten: the U.S. had run out of things to hock. Now pawnshops-like the nation-are on a queer, priority-ridden, psychologically insecure spree. Despite typewriter freezing (which has stopped loans on a pawnshop specialty), despite the fact that no workman today would think of hocking his irreplaceable micrometers, calipers and toolbox, most U.S. pawnshops are in the money...
...fish and wild game are hooked and bagged in the U.S.-enough to feed an army of 5,000,000 men for 77 days. Then, tipping off listeners that northern lakes would soon be crowded with canvasbacks, and muskies would soon launch their fall hitting spree, he proposed a pledge to his audience: "I promise to recover all game and bring it home for table use." Already submitted to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture...
...amateur competition, the big fishing companies have done well. Atlantic Coast Fisheries reported $495,000 profit in the year ended April 30, highest since 1928 and seven times the preceding year. Booth Fisheries earned $429,000, highest ever and almost double the year before. But both companies figure the spree is over: their fishing equipment is going to war, their taxes and operating costs are going...
...King and Queen were there. Otherwise, the third wartime running of the Derby at Newmarket last week was just a shadow of England's beloved annual spree...