Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scores of all World Series and All-Star baseball games will be announced at the end of each inning over the public-address system...
...this era of $100,000 bonuses for hot-shot high school kids who often end up in the bushes, the $4,000 paid to Bill Mazeroski for signing his contract seems more and more the best bargain Branch Rickey ever made. "Pound for dollar," says Pittsburgh Baseball Announcer Bob Prince in the lingo of the press box, "Mazeroski is far and away the most valuable chattel in the Pirate empire...
...payroll checkoff, and told union shop stewards that they can spend only half their working hours on union business. Ford and Chrysler, whose contracts expired three days after G.M.'s, followed the G.M. formula for operating in the no-contract period. If there are no contracts by the end of June, automakers may shut down. With a backlog of 760,000 cars, automakers prefer a showdown in the next few weeks to giving the union a chance to call a strike at the crucial model-changeover time...
...total net asset value of about $11 billion. The funds put more than $100 million a month into the securities market, hold about 3.8% of the dollar value of all shares on the New York Stock Exchange. The recession has scarcely slowed the growth of the popular "open-end" funds.* While sales of the mutual funds' shares were off a bit in the first quarter, in April they rose to $122 million, v. $113 million in April of 1957, and the funds expect 1958 to be even bigger than...
...growth has come in the open-end funds, whose assets total $9.5 billion (see chart). They are so big that some Wall Streeters fear that a wave of redemptions from worried investors might force a market break. But in all the recent sharp market breaks, the funds have bought, not sold, and thus given stability to the market. Recently the funds, thinking the market too high, were cautious about buying; of the 15 largest funds, twelve reduced their percentage of common-stock holdings in the first quarter...