Word: bending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the gates of the high-school football field in South Bend, Ind. one sunny day last week streamed 8,500 Studebaker Corp. employees, all members of C.I.O. United Auto Workers Local 5. They had come to decide on a matter of life and death for Studebaker and a matter of considerable importance to themselves. The company had lost $8,925,800 in the first half of this year, was still suffering heavy losses. To turn the tide, Studebaker asked the union to take a 14% cut in wage rates...
...take a pay cut of about 15% from the average $2.37 hourly rate (v. $2.00 for the Big Three). Against the wishes of their leaders, U.A.W. rank-and-filers voted it down. Studebaker threatened to cancel its contract with the union in 60 days and close its South Bend factory unless they reconsidered...
...date. Things really began to hum when Bop Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie took the stage with his quintet. Looking bemused and gesturing wildly, he set his cocked trumpet* to his lips and played Gabriel-like tones that sent chills up the listeners' spines. "See, that's a square bend," he explained, pointing to the upswept angle. "Well, I get a sort of square note out of there. When you say 'Pow-w-w,' it comes out like a pounding-like a pounding of bricks...
...July, which would mix the Dancer with the best on the other side of the Atlantic. At Ascot, the Dancer would have to race clockwise instead of counterclockwise, on turf instead of dirt, on a course that runs irregularly instead of on a neat, flat oval. The last bend of Ascot's "old mile" rises more than 40 feet in three furlongs. To run the course's ups & downs, a horse must be able to accelerate, slow down, accelerate on demand. Next week, Owner Vanderbilt and Trainer Winfrey plan to fly to Britain to case Ascot for themselves...
...Gussie's folding money, the Cards have picked up the Yankees' aging (34) Vic Raschi to beef up a pitching staff weakened by the loss (to the Army), of Wilmer ("Vinegar Bend") Mizell. They have a 25-year-old, $100,000 shortstop named Alex Grammas, out of Kansas City in Class AAA, who should give Regular Solly Hemus a run for his position. For another $100,000 they have hard-hitting Tom Alston, a first baseman and the first Negro on the Cardinal roster. And they have an impressive list of seasoned money players: Outfielder Enos Slaughter, Second...