Word: batting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mental strain was more than sensitive Yankee Gehrig could bear. The highest-salaried ($34,000 a year) baseballer in the major leagues had succeeded in getting only four hits and driving in only one run in the first eight games of the season. Every time he went to bat he felt that all the baseball fans in the world could hear him creak. When he got a hit he ran as though there were lead in his shoes. He missed low throws and grounders. Convinced that he was a hindrance rather than a help to his team, 35-year...
...young Czech named Thomas Bat'a (rhymes with "hotcha") left his small shoe factory in Zlin to study mass production methods in the U. S. He applied what he learned so well that by the World War his Zlin factory was turning out 6,000 pairs a day. Then Austria took over the plant and Shoemaker Bat'a returned to the U. S., set up a small factory in Lynn. When Czecho-Slovakia was born in 1918, he returned to Zlin to build Bat'a Shoe Co. into one of the world's largest (capacity...
...Boss of Bat'a now is Thomas' half-brother Jan, a vigorous anti-Nazi who was wisely sojourning in Rumania when Germany grabbed Czecho-Slovakia, but has since returned to Zlin. His biggest current problem is the 25% countervailing duty imposed by the U. S. on German-made goods, which completely kills Czech shoe imports (3,250,000 pairs last year). The Belcamp plant is Bat'a's attempt to hold this fat U. S. market...
Representing the Bat'a family in the U. S. is 24-year-old Thomas Bat'a Jr. At his father's funeral, all Bat'a employes vowed "in the presence of our dead chief to uphold his ideals: service to customers through cheap shoe production and service to fellow workers through high wages." Thomas Jr., then aged 18, laid on the bier a bunch of white roses inscribed: "I promise. Tommy...
...half of the sixth, Harvard appeared to be well on the way to an easy victory behind Tom Healey. Three tallies had been pushed across in the second, and one each in the third and fifth. However, Dartmouth combined three walks, three hits, and two Fulton wild heaves to bat around in the sixth and score five runs, thus tying up the game...