Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good pitching and devastating hitting-they had been expected to have neither-and led the league after winning nine of their first ten games. Much of the batting support came from a pair of light-hitting journeymen infielders who had been considered all but washed up. Third Baseman Woody Held, 27, a .204 hitter with only seven home runs last year, hit five homers, knocked in ten runs in his first eight games. Shortstop George Strickland, 33, who actually retired in disgust a year ago and returned only at the urging of Cleveland top brass, was hitting a whopping...
...ninth straight month, consumer prices held steady in March at 123.7 of the 1947-49 index. This news from the Labor Department seemed proof enough that the U.S. is not in the grip of any new inflation, but it was almost drowned out last week in a rising din over the dangers of inflation ahead...
...high, believe Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver and Wyoming's Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, is the "administered price," which largely ignores demand in deference to industry's effort to improve profits. Last week the Senate antitrust subcommittee, headed by Senator Kefauver, held hearings on a bill introduced by Senator O'Mahoney to require companies in highly concentrated industries to give 30 days' advance notice of any price hike...
...Stauffer's. He also shook off a campaign by the Better Business Bureau against his "misleading advertising," which promised that size 20s would be squeezed down to size 14s. Mack promoted Slenderella with TV and radio spots, built up sales to more than $20 million in seven years, held business conferences on his 68-ft. yacht moored near Slenderella's headquarters in Stamford, Conn...
Since the beginning of the year, U.S. business has invested some $130 million in Britain; total U.S. investment now stands at about $2.8 billion. Last week after Timken Roller Bearing Co. had offered $30.5 million for the outstanding British-held shares of British Timken Ltd., Laborite Harold Wilson rose in the House of Commons to ask whether the trend was not "cause for alarm or action." Calmly replied Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heathcoat Amory: "I should remind you that the amount of net investment we have made abroad enormously exceeds any net foreign investment made in this country over...