Word: bats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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N.F.P.'s version of the battery is a thin, blackish wafer about the size of a half dollar, enclosed in protective glass. It has two electric terminals like any other bat tery, and when it is exposed to bright sunlight it generates about half a volt. A square yard of the batteries would light a 100-watt lamp or run an electric fan. A few acres would give enough power for a fair-sized town...
...horseplay with his teammate and close congressional pal, California's James Roosevelt, leftfielder. Bellowed Tumulty: "When I get up, I'll have to hit a home run because I sure could never run out a hit to first base!" When one-inning Third Baseman Tumulty came to bat, a pinch runner was ready to do his legwork for him, but hurly-burly "T.J." hit only a short dribbler, was thrown out at first.* Helped by such feeble batting as Tumulty's. Roosevelt's strikeout, and five Democratic errors, the G.O.P., making only one error, forged ahead...
While the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther and his United Auto Workers battled for a guaranteed annual wage (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), another giant of U.S. labor came up to bat. In Pittsburgh this week, David McDonald, boss of the C.I.O.'s 1,200,000-man steelworkers union, sat down to start contract negotiations with the steel industry. McDonald did not ask for a guaranteed wage, thus observing the letter of his contract, which permits negotiations this year on wages only. Reportedly, the steelworkers will demand a straight hourly pay boost; the industry may counter with...
...playing, came forth with a new idea: he thought he ought to sit out a few games. Milwaukee, however, was no place for Robinson to rest. His visit had already been disturbed by a process server. Last season, in a fit of pique, he had slung a bat into the Milwaukee stands. A couple of local customers, who said they had been hit, were suing...
...Milwaukee. After twelve innings of tied-up (1-1) ball, Braves Captain Del Crandall, hitless for almost two weeks, brushed the bench splinters out of the seat of his pants, stepped to the plate and walloped a game-winning home run. Next afternoon, in his very next time at bat, rejuvenated Del Crandall lofted another one into the stands. But it was too much to expect the Dodgers to run up a losing streak of more than two. They ran off with the game...