Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ninth inning the San Francisco Giants trailed Philadelphia 7-5, and faced the awesome task of making up the deficit against the Phillies' Dick Farrell, best relief pitcher in the National League. But not a fan stirred to leave Seals Stadium. Instead, the crowd settled back expectantly for the last of the ninth...
...farmers this year at prices from $8,999 to $15,000. A farm organization has put together $1,590 grand tours of Europe for its members this summer. Says the proprietor of Knoust's Party Shop in Phillipsburg. Mo. (pop. 170), noting that farmers are among his best customers for cocktail shakers, blenders and bar glasses: "The farmer around here is an urbane host. The cocktail before dinner is as much a part of his way of life as it is in town...
FOOD MERGER is in works between fast-growing Corn Products Refining Co. and Best Foods, Inc. to create grocery processor second only to General Foods Corp. (annual sales: $1 billion). Corn Products (Mazola salad oil, Karo syrups) grossed $495 million last year, while Best Foods (Nucoa margarine, Hellmann's mayonnaise) grossed $114 million...
...emergency supply system that functioned so well at the time of Suez. If it wanted to do so, the U.S. could probably increase its current production of 6,475,000 bbl. a day by at least 45%. One problem would be deploying the world's tanker fleets to best advantage as rapidly as possible. For this reason, long-depressed U.S. tanker rates rose 15% to 20% last week...
...after his banker father was forced out of Venezuela by a revolution), came to the U.S. for a. degree in sugar engineering at Louisiana State University, then went into the family sugar-trading firm of Galban Lobo. Soon Lobo was on his own, eventually started buying mills as the best protection for a speculator. Five months ago he bought his latest and most impressive parcel: a $24.5 million complex of Cuban mills and other assets called the Hershey properties, once held by the chocolate-makers and since 1946 by Cuban Atlantic Sugar...