Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hardly a murmur, key U.S. cities have accepted the sleek Nike antiaircraft missile batteries as next-door neighbors. Scores of cities have faced up to a decline in local industry by all-out and usually successful attempts to attract new industry. Leading example: South Bend, Ind. South Bend was hit hard in 1954 when Studebaker stalled and Singer (sewing machines) pulled out. and a committee of South Bend businessmen set about making the city attractive to industry, saw three dozen firms move in within three years. Last fortnight the erstwhile textile center of New Bedford, Mass, rallied more than...
...best players; Wally Maxwell, Neil Buchanan, and John Rendell, through ineligabilities ruling by the NCAA before the game started. In the course of the evening Tommy Rendell, Neil McDonald, Barry Hayton, and Wolverine captain Bob Pitt were all injured in collisions with varsity defensemen or varsity shots. Pitt was hit in the nose by a deflected drive off John Copeland's stick and had to have 25 stitches taken...
...study of radioactivity in foods, the Food and Drug Administration hit upon a rare source of canned foods unquestionably packed before the advent of the atomic era: supplies cached in the Antarctic by the Shackleton expedition (1908-09) and the Scott expedition (1910-13). While waiting for the arrival of the long-buried samples, the Government scientists went to work on early-arriving samples of powdered milk left by Rear Admiral Byrd at Little America...
...Hit by a coronary attack in spring training, Giant Catcher Bill Sarni, 29, was ordered by his doctors never again to play baseball, later was signed on as a coach for the coming season so that he might qualify for a limited pension...
...other hand, Republican farm politicians, who see a congressional election coming up in 1958 with no Eisenhower on the ticket, feared that the downturn in parity indicated that the farm slump has still not hit bottom. They also saw a risk that null relatively good hog prices will stimulate an oversupply of pork in 1958, that a 4% increase in cattle now in feedlots will mean lower prices for quality steaks and roasts this fall, that current low prices for eggs (7½ a dozen under last year at the farm) will continue, and that the price supports under dairy...