Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is more, top Cowlesmen think so much like their bosses that they get little direct supervision. Other than a formal meeting every month or so and occasional spot conferences, John leaves his eleven-man editorial-page staff pretty much alone. Des Moines rarely even bothers to check a stand with Mike. Instead, the staffs in both cities meet to hash out editorials, hear every man's views, try to reach a consensus, nearly always end up speaking in a Cowles tone of voice...
Puerto Rico's warm sun (362 days yearly; 78° mean temperature, only 6° variation between summer and winter) alone had not melted the hotelmen; they had studied Puerto Rico's tourist prospects. In eleven years tourism has jumped sixfold to become Puerto Rico's third industry, with a $31 million annual volume -more than the tourist trade of all the South American countries combined...
...league manager is going to ruin that kid. He stays with me." Stay he did-long enough to hit 511 home runs, score 1,859 runs, bat in another 1,860, draw 1,708 bases on balls (all National League records that still stand). He batted over .300 in eleven seasons, led the league in homers six times, wound up with a lifetime average of .304. Giant fans called Mel Ott "the Little Giant," watched fondly as he took his straight-up, lefthanded stance, kicked his right foot up to get all his 160 lbs. into the swing, and pumped...
...University could attest that there are many) might be. When the general picture of American private debt is considered, however, these figures do not seem so formidable. In the past decade consumer credit went up nearly three and a half billion dollars a year, and mortgage debts rose nearly eleven billion a year. Gross savings, at thirty seven billion in 1947, are predicted to jump to a hundred billion by 1970. The increase in debt incurred by the Harris plan would, in this respect, be relatively small...
...Westerns are rustling more TViewers than ever, reported the Nielsen rating service. Latest western reading: four of the top five nighttime shows, eleven of the top 20. The roundup: Gunsmoke (37-7), Wagon Train (32.4), Danny Thomas (32.1), Have Gun, Will Travel (30.8), Wells Fargo (30.2), Desilu Playhouse (30.1), I've Got a Secret (29.5), Wyatt Earp (29.2), Ann Sothern Show (28.7), Cheyenne (28.2), Peter Gunn (27.8), Real McCoys (27.5), Rifleman (27.5), The Price Is Right (27.4), Want-ed-Dead or Alive (27.3), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (27.1), Father Knows Best (27.0), General Electric Theatre (26.6), Texan (26.4), Maverick...