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...giants of the early 1900s? Of the 100 largest industrial corporations in 1909, only 36 appeared on a similar list drawn up for 1948. U.S. Steel dropped from first place to third; Standard Oil (later Jersey Standard) moved up from second to first. Most swings were much wider. Sears, Roebuck rose from 42nd to 13th, Western Electric from 51st to 14th and Texas Co. from 87th to sixth, while Pullman Co. dropped from eighth to 81st, Singer Manufacturing from 13th to 79th and Pittsburgh Coal (now Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal) from 15th to 94th. Five companies among the first...
...Longer & Wider. Even in Canada pro football is a relative newcomer to big-time sport. Prewar clubs drew small crowds, were no match for the hopped-up enthusiasm of intercollegiate competition. Then the pros began to import popular American stars, and as the quality of pro football picked up, so did the size of the rooting sections. November's Grey Cup. classic-the playoff for the professional championship-began to pack Toronto's Varsity Stadium (capacity...
...longer than the standard 100-yd. gridirons at home; end zones are 25 rather than ten yards deep; kicks that carry over the end zone or are not run out by a defending player score one point (a rouge), a factor that helps eliminate tie games. Fields are also wider than at home (65 yds. v. 53⅓), tempting offensive teams to try wide, sweeping, running plays...
...prepared text to raise a finger heavenward and declare emotionally: "Let us remember that these terms, hard though they may be, are the only alternative to continued fighting, further misery and suffering, and the certainty of even greater sacrifices in the end. What is more, there was a wider danger...
...summer by adults and older children). Half of them are polio victims, 16 have cerebral palsy, eight have muscular dystrophy, and the rest suffer from a variety of crippling ailments. Special care was taken in constructing new buildings: all but one are flush with the ground, doors are wider than normal to accommodate wheelchairs and spraddled crutches, there are railings along porches and in bathrooms. Showers, too, are adjustable for children in wheelchairs...