Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Start in life: blacking boots, hawking newspapers...
...complicated affair, more complicated than the average railroad. Its central root stretches to Hibbing, Minn., where one Carl Eric Wickman, Swedish immigrant, was working in the mines in 1912. That year the town was moved three or four miles away, and Wickman bought a seven-passenger used Hupmobile, started transporting workers, made $2.25 the first trip. He slowly expanded his service, in 1914 incorporated Mesaba Transportation Co., operated a line from Hibbing to Duluth. In 1924 he joined his lines and some others to form Northland Transportation Co. which a year later was given an exclusive franchise by the Minnesota...
After more than a full week of competition, including the opening game of the season on Soldiers Field with Boston University and five tilts on the annual Southern trip the record of the University baseball team now stands at two victories and four defeats. It is a rather shaky start that Coach Mitchell's charges have made and compares none too favorably to the records of the last three years when the Crimson nine lost only one game each time...
...least for the period, a "creeping bull market." On Jan. 2 the Dow Jones averages stood at (industrials) 244.20, (rails) 144.68 and (utilities) 286.38. By March 31 they had climbed to (industrials) 286.10, (rails) 157.28 and (utilities) 106.13. Notable was the fact that the first stocks to start recovering included most of the utilities (which had suffered severely in the crash). Union Carbide, American Tel. & Tel., Steel, American Can, General Electric continued as leaders. Stocks which started the year off poorly remained soft. Selling of Montgomery Ward on lower earnings, Gillette on beclouded patent situations, Simmons on a truer understanding...
...publication's career began in 1905 when Editor Silverman left the New York Morning Telegraph because he would not comply with his boss's wishes about a theatrical review. Variety's first field was the vaudeville and burlesque profession. From the start its impertinence made good friends and bad enemies. Longest and bitterest struggle the sheet had was with the late Edward Franklin Albee, from whose theatres and booking offices Variety reporters were barred because the weekly rushed to the defense of wronged Thespians on every possible occasion...