Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...call cost us 80?," says Colts' General Manager Don Kellett. "We've come out so far ahead, it looks like a swindle." With a shot at the starting quarterback job part way through the 1956 season. Unitas, now grown to 190 Ibs., compiled the highest pass completion percentage (55.6) of any rookie pro passer in history. In 1957 he led the league in passing yardage (2,550) and touchdown passes (24), was named the league's most valuable player. This season, more than any other man, he has been the spark of the Colts' title drive...
After one of the slowest starts in years, Christmas retail sales last week finished a surprising 4% ahead of record 1957. In Chicago subzero weather held December sales well below last year almost up to the final week. Then the weather and the customers' sales resistance thawed out together. Vice President J. Chalmers O'Brien of the Loop's 104-year-old Carson Pirie Scott reported that the Monday before Christmas, sales were the highest for any shopping day ever, and "by quite a margin." Near the North Shore, the Old Orchard shopping center said that...
...American Tobacco's second-place Pall Mall gained 6.4% to 58 billion, American was hurt by a 9.2% dip in sales of its third-place Lucky Strike, to 47.2 billion. Furthermore, neither of its filters-Hit Parade or Tareyton-broke into the top 15 brands. Meantime, Reynolds sped ahead on the sales of its Winston, up 5.5% to 42.3 billion, ranking it as the top-selling filter and No. 4 among all brands. Reynolds' filtered Salem also took over first place in the burgeoning mentholated market, and rose from 13th to tenth place among all brands, as sales...
About 400 New York policemen and government security agents guarded Mikoyan's every step as he arrived at New York's Idlewild Airport at 5:11 a.m., nearly two hours ahead of schedule...
...varsity picked up its only win the next night downing American International College, 68 to 61. The see-saw first half closed with the varsity trailing by two, but a second half spurt put the team ahead to stay. Wilson praised Bob Bowditch's work off both backboards, saying that the sophomore forward turned in his best effort of the year...