Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...driller that cuts the hardest metal-e.g., tungsten carbide-without touching it. Made by Cincinnati Milling Machine Co., the cutting edge is a stream of electrons a sort of manmade lightning. ¶A lathe with a mechanical brain, which computes the correct cutting speed for each job. Its makers, Monarch Machine Tool Co. of Sidney, Ohio, estimate that the brain alone can increase production 25% ¶A Cleveland Tapping Machine Co device that cuts threads on iron pipe fittings at the rate of 85 feet a minute, producing 1,480 fittings an hour, compared to the previous standard...
NATIONAL LEAGUE Team: Brooklyn (by 14 games) Pitcher: Newcombe, Brooklyn (19-4) Batter: Ashburn, Philadelphia (.336) Runs Batted In: Snider, Brooklyn (128) Home Runs: Kluszewski, Cincinnati...
...instrument by a politician whose contact with the Evil Spirit was more caress than competition: Aaron Burr. In Tammany, which drew its membership from working men and enlisted veterans of the army of the Revolution, Burr saw the perfect political counterfoil to Alexander Hamilton's Society of the Cincinnati, a veterans' organization made up of officers. When Burr and Hamilton dueled at Weehawken, two Tammany sachems were with Burr, one as his second. That night, as Hamilton lay dying, there was a gala celebration at Tammany headquarters in the Long Room of Abraham Martling's Nassau Street...
Test Pilot. In Cincinnati, after he was hauled into traffic court for speeding, fined $5 by Judge Frank M. Gusweiler, 73-year-old Clifford Hotchkiss explained: "My brakes were bad, and I was only trying them...
...comparative rookie-were hitting in a way that made amateur statisticians wonder how close they would come to Ruth's record.* Brooklyn's reliable Duke Snider, batting .315, blasted out three homers last week to keep himself on top with 38, just two ahead of Cincinnati First Baseman Ted Kluszewski, last year's home-run king...