Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indoor track season hit its stride, but Laszlo Tabori, the fast Hungarian refugee, lagged far off the pace. Trying the indoor mile for the first time at the Philadelphia Inquirer meet, he ran a slow 4:10.8, finished third behind Boston's George King (4:10.1) and Chicago's Phil Coleman (4:10.7). Next night in Washington, B.C., Tabori switched to the two-mile run, dropped out on the twelfth lap with stomach cramps. The winner: Polish Refugee John Macy (9:02.6), now a student at the University of Houston. Olympic Hurdles Champion Lee Calhoun came back from...
Weiland's problem thus involves not only some fast conditioning but also some reshuffling of lines and defense pairs in order to fit these men in the lineup...
...Youngstown Sheet & Tube's dip of gf. The main reason was a sudden pessimism, largely touched off by a gloomy steel report front-paged in the Wall Street Journal, and sent over the Dow-Jones ticker, which said that demand is disappointing and inventories are building up too fast. Steelmen thought the report was far too pessimistic, and so did the industry's bible, Iron Age. Said Editor Tom Campbell to the American Warehousemen's Association in Chicago: "The facts do not suggest a rate of activity under that of last year, when steel production...
...when railroads held U.S. transportation in virtual monopoly, and the public could be damned. Even as late as World War II, U.S. railroads had an antiquated plant far behind other industries. Cars, buses and planes started eating into passenger revenues; the booming young trucking industry, along with barges and fast-expanding pipelines, cut into freight traffic. Between 1943 and 1949 the railroad share of the $30 billion U.S. transportation market crumbled from...
...Black Thursday. Indeed, he never defaulted on a dividend; but he was in the trap of paying dividends out of capital. He gambled millions in the market himself, and lost. Outwardly calm but inwardly frantic, he became the master forger of the age when, in 1931. in the inner fastnesses of his regal headquarters at the Match Palace in Stockholm, he forged with his own hand $143 million in Italian government bonds. By now, Kreuger's Depression-gored empire was bleeding cash too fast to be saved by bogus credit plasma. A sprinkling of embarrassing questions began. As they...