Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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This, aside from the Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Freshman games, nine Yale battles were staged this year, and an estimated total of nearly two hundred men, not eligible for first teams were able to experience the fun of Harvard-Yale conflict and the spree that goes with it. These games proved not only pleasant affairs in themselves, but also a definite pace-quickener for the whole season...
...weeks ago (barehanded this time) he went to Wall Street again, resolved to save $810,000 a year by refunding the 3¾s with 38. His trip was a cost-cutting spree. Hiring one of the largest U. S. investment bankers, hard-working First Boston Corp., he pared the usual two or more point commission to if points, a spread nearly as small as that secured by investor-popular American Telephone & Telegraph securities. He kept his own legal fees at rock bottom, watched those of his underwriters. To cut printing bills, he ordered only 47,500 copies...
...Pins and Nedles" would still be a collection of union drama-clubbers on a spree without the brilliance of Harold Rome, who wrote the lyrics and music, and Joseph Schrank, the man behind the sketches. A few of the tunes, especially "I've Got the Nerve to Be in Love," are hell-bent for the Hit Parade...
...Copper, fresh from a June sales spree 450% ahead of March, sat on an export inventory which had backed up when France was put out of the war. By last week, it was clear that June's sales would not look so impressive when averaged with a couple of "correctional" months...
...squirrel spree forgotten, sugar was back at its humdrum ways: an industry of chronic depression, divided into a number of tough and coony political pressure groups. The U. S. consumes about 6,750,000 tons of sugar a year. The big cane importers and refiners are equipped to serve a market for 8,000,000 tons. Besides this, the relatively high-cost beet operators of the Mountain States, California and Michigan, can turn out 2,000,000 tons. Under a free economy, beet sugar would not get a smell of the domestic market until demand broke all records and exceeded...