Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pitching career against the St. Louis Cardinals' Gas House Gang. First man up in the exhibition game in Cleveland was a scrappy shortstop named Leo Durocher. Robert William Andrew Feller took a couple of warmup tosses, then reared back and fired. Leo heard two strikes whistle past so fast that he could not see the ball, then dropped his bat and headed for the dugout. "Hey," the umpire called, "you've got a strike left." "You can have it," Durocher replied, and kept on walking...
...nautilus builds additional "chambers" on its shell as it matures; so, he felt, Mrs. James "had built another room on the series of rooms that is her life." The painting gives substance to a Wyeth principle: "So many artists tell me they reached the bottom of realism too fast. They reached the depth of their own emotions, but not of the object. What the subject means is the important thing...
...acute appendicitis, physicians and surgeons have been almost unanimous for more than half a century that the thing to do was to cut out the diseased and apparently useless organ as fast as possible. In the last dozen years, many have wondered whether antibiotics might do the job as well as the scalpel, but few have dared to take a chance. In the British Medical Journal, Surgeon Eric Coldrey reports that, in three years at Rotherham Hospital in Yorkshire, he has taken this chance in 137 cases of acute appendicitis and has lost only one patient (a feeble...
Goals Filled. ODM's Flemming also refused to issue fast tax write-off certificates to help expand production of steel and five other goods (commercial aircraft, aviation fuel, titanium melting, titanium processing and taconite iron ore). The defense expansion goals have been filled, said Flemming. Actually, more plant expansion now would make steel even scarcer by diverting it to new plants that would not be in production until...
...FAST tax write-offs do not provide the basic solution to the financial difficulties of every industry for large amounts of money required for long-lived equipment. The fundamental solution lies in the revision of the overall tax structure to recognize the limitation that inflation imposes on the replacement of equipment." With these words last week, U.S. Steel Chairman Roger M. Blough pointed up a problem that goes far beyond the immediate argument over ODM's refusal to grant fast tax write-offs to ease the steel shortage. The problem: How can U.S. industry continue to replace and expand...