Word: hards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most likely to become baseball's rookie of the year is a huge (6 ft. 4 in.) pitcher named Don Newcombe. He weighs 235 lbs. and throws baseballs so hard that to batters they look like aspirin tablets coming toward the plate. Around the National League, players agree that the hulking giant in a Brooklyn Dodger uniform is the best right-hander in the business...
...shell him out of the box, but it was the first time in his last seven starts. His record: w. 15, l. 6. Although everybody has tremendous respect for his curve and control, the secret of Newcombe's success is summed up simply in three words: he throws hard...
...still in danger of overexposure. Most authorities set three exposures in one day, or twelve in a year, as the maximum allowable. But on many machines there is nothing to keep a moppet from pressing the button again & again to see his wiggling toes. And if mother is hard to please, the salesman will want to give her another look...
...spite of such reassuring facts, some businessmen had been hard hit. U.S. retailers reported that their sales were still below the 1948 level, and for 172 department stores, net profits for 1949's first half were 58% below the 1948 period. Some merchants thought that further price cuts were in order. Last week, five men's clothing chains trimmed suit prices from $3 to $10. One of the ten biggest U.S. distillers, Glenmore, announced the first major postwar price slash in bottled-in-bond bourbon whisky (a cut of $1 a bottle on Kentucky Tavern, retailing in Manhattan...
...Today, Lisa works an average of 20 hours a week, half on advertising and half on magazine fashion illustrations, which pay less than advertising pictures ($12.50-$15) but carry prestige. Lisa averages about $500 a week, could easily make more if she worked a 40-hour week. Once, working hard, she made $1,800 in one week...