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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hodder changed his lines again, running Forbes Perkins as an alternate in his old position as right wing on the first trio. Dave Eaton will start as center on the first line with Skip Ervin and Warren Winslow as wings, but will center the second trio during most of the game, with his former colleagues, Stacy Hulse and Prennie Willetts...

Author: By Peter Dammann, | Title: TIGER FAVORED TO BEAT HOCKEY TEAM | 2/17/1940 | See Source »

Unlike Coleman, Sherm Gray rarely carries the puck up the rink, though he is considered Hodder's most successful body-checker, and an effective blueline operative. Alternative defenseman Forbes Perkins is the Crimson's third highest scorer, with three tallies to his credit. A former first line wing, he was switched back to the defense to make room for a speedier skater...

Author: By Peter Demmann, | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/13/1940 | See Source »

...time he reached Miami's Bayfront Park, where 4,000 oldsters and youngsters heard him castigate NLRB ("a new one ... on which employers and employes are represented rather than left-wing enthusiasts") ; Trade Treaties ("The Republican Party believes in imposing and retaining a tariff equal to the difference in cost of production abroad . . ."); SEC ("amended to be what it was intended to be, a protection against fraud, and not a weapon [of] the Government"); the Wage-Hour Law ("Nothing [so] threatens to throttle small business today . . ."); Social Security's payroll tax ("particularly oppressive"), Bob Taft was well into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Speechmaking Candidate | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

Puncture-proof tanks are not the only reason intact German ships are scarce in Britain. No amount of buckskin and raw rubber can withstand the buzz-saw effect of eight machine guns, set in fours in the leading wing-edge of British pursuit planes so that their fixed fire converges. The British censorship last week released photographs of such a pursuit ship: 1) being fed its python-like ration of bullets; 2) standing over a drift of empty cartridges during a trial burst of fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Rubber and Buckskin | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...they do when nervous, Nazis grew sarcastic. "What a sum!" commented Deutscher Dienst on a $100,000 relief installment from the U. S. "Not even a whole airplane; just the left wing of a bomber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: One War for Two | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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