Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SOFT-COAL PRICES will go up about 25? a ton although demand is dropping. Reason: 200,000 miners are getting 80?-a-day raises on April 1. Hike will hit coal-burning utility companies hardest...
...Information Service radio-TV man.) The Hauges got off to a flying start with the whirlwind of inflation that swept the Japanese yen from 15 all the way to 360 to the dollar. At the same time the Hauges were reaping a paper harvest of yen, Japanese families, hit with postwar taxes, were living an "onionskin existence," peeling off long-treasured art works to stay afloat...
...outfield spitter, happily signed up for his 16th season in the big leagues, had no reason to be disappointed with a salary at least as good as last year's: a reported $100,000. "But I will be disappointed if I don't drive in 100 runs, hit 20 or 30 homers and hit .330 or .340. As you get older, you start realizing there isn't a whole lot of things you know better than baseball...
...wholesale prices to be passed on. Last week the commodity markets showed a distinct downtrend. Copper, at a 90-year peak of 46 a lb. only last March, slumped to 34?, was expected to drop still further. No. 2 copper scrap, also a March record-breaker when it hit 45.5?, fell 20? to the lowest price in some two years as copper production outpaced demand...
...general from Chicago to Singapore, hit everything from oats to onions. Hide prices fell to a postwar low, cast-aluminum scrap fell one-half under last spring to 14? a lb., rubber futures fell as much as 80 to 120 points as Singapore traders trimmed inventories...