Word: bat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eleven years ago with a good backlog of Hollywood feature films. Even better were its first self-produced show, Yesterday's Newsreels, and its first adventure series, Cisco Kid. Others followed, including Men of Annapolis, West Point, Harbor Command, and this season's Dial 999 and Bat Masterson. Today Ziv employs 3,500 people, uses ten Hollywood sound stages where it produces more syndicated shows (32) than any of its competitors. Ziv charges $35 to $3,500 a week per show (depending on the size of the viewing city), grossed $42 million last year...
...Hawskin said he will deploy his units to key extermination centers around the Square. Sharpshooters will man positions atop Lowell House, the Lampoon, and the Bat Club, providing, of course, "the Communists don't burn the place down before we get going...
...outfield hits fall in front of fielders, Speaker took advantage of his speed, played in so close that he almost breathed down the second baseman's neck. He watched the batter's feet, knew where the ball would go, was off at the crack of the bat. When the fly dropped, he was waiting. Grabbing line drives on the short hop, he threw runners out at first. Player-manager of the Indians during his last ten seasons, he led them to their first World Championship (1920), in recent years served as batting coach at the Indians' spring...
Established last year under the first major civil rights legislation since Reconstruction, the six-member U.S. Civil Rights Commission spent nearly a year getting itself organized, set this week for its first formal hearings. Predictably, it ran right off the bat into something less than Southern hospitality...
Smoke damage was heavy on both floors, O'Brien said. The Bat Club occupies the two floors above the Gold Coast Valeteria, which escaped the fire. Flames, however, were restricted to the second floor of the building, and O'Brien expects that the third floor will be in use again in a couple of days...