Word: batch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Give & Take. Carpenter has presented Sawyer with a batch of bonus beauties, including Pitchers Simmons ($65,000) and Roberts ($25,000), Catcher Stan Lopata ($25,000) and Third Baseman Willie Jones ($16,000). Others on the club were also costly, but Sawyer must play these youngsters (who, under bonus rules, may not be returned to the minors for seasoning) in order to justify their price. Other managers with pennant contenders use risky bonus players as bench blankets, take no chances...
Sixty-five percent of the Hoover Commission's proposals are still to be considered; Truman sent another batch of four to the Hill this month. And the 65 percent includes really controversial ones. Those favoring reform can only hope that the President holds close to the Commission's blueprints so that each measure can be debated on its own merits, not on partisan grounds. And, more important perhaps, so that Congress doesn't let the Capitol's balcony quarterbacks--the lobbies--call any more signals on its vital plays...
...brief stops along the way he shook hands with local Democrats, accepted a batch of birthday cakes (on Monday he was 66) and traded good-natured sallies with trainside crowds. By the time he reached Galesburg, Ill., which had not been visited by a President since William McKinley stopped there in 1899, the President was drawing crowds and sniping away at the Republicans who opposed his foreign policy ("They can't see beyond their noses"). At Lincoln, Neb., in the heart of the farm belt, he got around to the first of nine formal speeches of the tour. Opposition...
...were the ringleaders? Or were there any? Not even the police had found out. They arrested only a few and held them for questioning. In one batch of three, there was a Boy Scout, an altar boy and a member of the Red-tinged Young Progressives of America...
...boost earnings still more, confident P. & G. was test-selling a batch of new products last week. Among them: Cheer, a synthetic laundry detergent; Joy, a liquid cleanser for dishes; and Wondra, a "washoff" cold cream. P. & G. also plans to invade the fast-growing home-permanent-wave field with a product called Lilt...