Word: bleacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...please move a little closer so more people can get seats?" The crowds hunched together on the planked seats, made room for more. At halftime, underdog Purdue left the floor, one point ahead of league-leading Wisconsin. As the crowd got to its feet cheering, one of the packed bleacher-stands sagged. There was the ugly rip of splintering wood; cheers died in people's throats, and instead there were panicky cries. The stand collapsed, bringing 4,000 fans down with it. The toll: three dead, 250 injured...
Rules & Responsibilities. When Terry decided to make him field captain in 1938, Ott objected: "Why Bill, I don't know the rules. How can I be captain?" Terry threw a rulebook at him and ordered: "Study them. You're captain." Soon Ott's bleacher friends, who always shouted advice to their favorite right fielder, noted the little difference that responsibilities made and began calling him Ottie. So did the players and the management. Then Terry quit the bench for a front-office job. The Giants' secretary, fidgety, coffee-drinking Eddie Brannick, had an idea: "God gave...
Divorced. Leland Stanford ("Larry'') MacPhail, 55, baseball's bleacher-lunged showman, now boss of the New York Yankees ; by Inez Thompson MacPhail, 55; after 34 years of marriage, five of separation...
Then the flame suddenly spurted upward with nightmare swiftness, and billowed silently across the whole top of the tent near the main entrance. The bleachers suddenly rumbled under thousands of feet; folding chairs clattered and banged. The crowd struggled to reach the ground, flowed wildly toward the exits, clotted into groups which pushed and elbowed with silent, furious concentration in the furnace-like heat. Men & women in the high bleacher seats began dropping children to the ground, then jumped themselves. Then great blazing patches of canvas fell. Women screamed as their hair and dresses caught fire. Then a tent pole...
...aluminum from France until war interfered, has since been a reluctant Alcoa customer. Last week, having arranged to get bauxite from Dutch Guiana, Reynolds got approval of a $15,800,000 RFC loan to build ingot smelters, probably in Alabama. Ingot smelters consume electricity the way a St. Louis bleacher crowd uses pop on a hot day. Like Alcoa's own main furnaces, for which Franklin Roosevelt signed a $68,500,000 TVA expansion bill last week, Reynolds will get its electricity from TVA. Reynolds Metals called its project "our contribution to national defense," claimed to be aiming...