Word: back
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...triumphant train ride from Boston to Cleveland, Veeck, normally a careful drinker, broke a rule and got tipsy enough to start squirting champagne at his players. They grabbed bottles and began squirting back. When one woman got her dress spoiled Veeck ordered: "Buy her a new $250 one." After 20 cases of champagne and ten cases of bubble ink were gone, he took a look at his wine-soaked ballplayers and ordered new suits for them all. "Greatest guy in the world," everybody said...
...finale was Bill Veeck's greatest moment. He had conquered Cleveland and he was anxious to move on. All through 1949, while the team played indifferent ball, talk of the sale of the Indians bubbled on a back burner. Last week Veeck sold his Indians for an estimated $2,200,000 to a group of Cleveland businessmen headed by Insurance Executive Ellis Ryan. The sum was about $1,000,900 more than Veeck and his partners had paid for the club. Said Bill Veeck, when asked what major-league city he was planning to invade next...
...talk about inflationary Government spending had grown so loud that even the Administration seemed to be taking note. Last week Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer was back at his desk in Washington after a swing around the country, in which he had dispensed thousands of soothing words into the ears of worried businessmen...
...they watched, there was a cough and a sputter; then a stream of oil shot out 30 ft. and poured into the mud sump pit. Joe York rubbed his hands in the oil, smelled it and smiled. "I guess I won't have to go back to milking those Jersey cows," he said. The oil scouts took but one look and one sniff, jumped in their cars and raced for telephones...
...along roads he had called "good." But Marcos remained cheerful. What seemed like outrageous hardship to the tenderfoot caballeros was easy going for the hardy friar, veteran of long treks through Peru and Central America. Besides, he had his secret. The royal road to riches he had talked about back in Mexico City had been only a come-on to hasten the expedition. What Fray Marcos sought was the rich "harvest of souls" he expected to find in the north...