Word: ball
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...busy last week regearing Russia's whole economic machine with a drastic accent on Youth. Only 28 years old and only a candidate for membership in the Communist Party, a machinist named Yakob Yusim had just been promoted straight from the lathe to be director of the Kaganovich Ball Bearing Plant ("Largest in the World") at Moscow, made boss of 20,000 of his former fellow workers. Straight from the cab of his locomotive an engineer named Peter Krivonos, according to Moscow dispatches last week, was promoted manager of the Slaviansk Railway Repair Shop ("Largest in Russia...
...including Italy's 18,765-ton Conte Verde, Japan's 16,975-ton Asama Maru-were ripped from their storm moorings, slammed ashore. The On Lee, a 1,026-ton coastal vessel, was smashed against the British cruiser Süffolk, bounced back like a ping-pong ball into the British destroyer Duchess, rammed through a wharf, piled up ashore at the foot of a waterfront street. At least 20 ships were reported sunk-four of them big ones-including Britain's Hunan, carrying 1,200 Chinese refugees from Shanghai...
...preparing to enter the German junior championships, young von Cramm smartly telephoned the tennis club to find out what brand of ball would be used, religiously used the prescribed brand in practice. The committee at the last moment shifted to another brand and methodical von Cramm was quickly eliminated. The next year he decided to move to Berlin where he could receive better instruction...
...figure in five years ($620,000,000), while airconditioning equipment production, cigaret sales and electric power output were at all-time peaks. Moreover, retail sales were zooming happily. Payrolls were still fattening. In view of such indices the prospect for fall business looked much like an oft-batted tennis ball which when dropped still has plenty of bounce, but not quite so much as human hearts have hoped...
...went to court asking $100,000 damages and an injunction. Judge Ferdinand Pecora, onetime inquisitor for the U. S. Senate, heard the case, granted an injunction prohibiting Transradio from carrying through its proposed plan of using the Buick broadcast for "tips" and getting its facts by spyglassing over the ball-park fence...