Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eight years since he started climbing up the Yankee chain, Tommy Holmes had worked hard to reach his present peak. As a pesky wrist-hitter, who specialized in poking the ball to left field (mostly singles), he had a five-year average of .329 with Norfolk, Binghamton and Newark. Then the Yankees sold him to Boston. There he learned to pull the ball, spent hours trying to hit a roll of tarpaulin along the right field foul line. When the right-field fence at Braves Field was shortened, he learned to, swing for distance...
Said retiring Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.: the case was one of the most "shocking, revolting and disgusting" experiences of his twelve years in the Treasury. It concerned a New York restaurant chain operator suspected of evading income taxes on his wartime profits. Legally bound to secrecy, Secretary Morgenthau named no names...
This question (and it was seriously asked) last week stirred up a first-class family fight in Federated Department Stores, Inc., fifth biggest U.S. department-store chain...
Rich, mass-selling R. H. Macy & Co., Inc. has long yearned for a West Coast anchor for its department-store chain (eight stores in seven U.S. cities). Last week it got one: San Francisco's sedate, pioneer O'Connor, Moffatt...
...Labor Department employes (see cut). Her plans: a month in Maine with her ailing husband Paul Wilson; beyond that she would not say. The other departing Cabinet officers were more definite about their futures. Francis Biddle would take up lawyering in Philadelphia. Frank Walker would go back to his chain of Pennsylvania and New York movie theaters. Claude Wickard took on at once his ten-year plum as Rural Electrification Administrator...