Word: belt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slide. It was Stanky who helped Rookie Shortstop Alvin Dark (now batting .331) off to his sensational start. Even without Stanky, Billy's boys picked up speed. For pitching, Southworth relied on two work horses-tobacco-chewing right-hander Johnny Sain, with two 20-game seasons under his belt, and lefthander Warren Spahn...
...Federal Reserve Board pulled in another notch in the nation's credit belt last week. It ordered its 7,000 member banks to put up some $1.9 billion in additional reserves. It was the second time FRB had used the new anti-inflation powers granted by the special session. (The first was tightening of installment credit, which goes into effect next week.) As banks lend about $6 for every dollar they have on deposit, FRB's order, in effect, cut the lending power of banks about $12 billion...
...Electric impulses cause perforations to be cut in ticker tape attached to the face of the keys. The customers take the tape to the cashier, who inserts it in a translator machine. That sets off more electric impulses which not only start the goods sliding down a conveyor belt, but at the same time add up the bill...
...Oakland's Northern Police Station, Isaac Fox sat quietly while an FBI agent questioned him. He talked candidly. But his eyes were fixed on the agent, and especially on the revolver which he carried in an open holster on his belt. As the agent leaned forward to write, Fox grabbed the pistol, got the end under his chin and pulled the trigger. The old bank robber toppled backward, dead...
...Republic took another hitch in it's belt last week, the second in six months. It lopped off eight staffers (leaving 53), planned to cut down the little color it now uses, and the number of staff-written articles. Gone, with ex-Editor Henry Wallace, was the dream of a big, expensive-looking magazine for 330, 000. Circulation, which reached a high of 96,411 last January when Wallace announced his presidential candidacy, was down to 80,000 and would probably slide lower. The circulation campaign that helped bring in new readers has been dropped; it cost too much...