Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atlantic City efforts, it missed the strike zone. The upshot: at the end of the seventh inning of the big Democratic delegate contest, Harriman still trailed Front Runner Adlai Stevenson, 3-1. Nothing Harriman tried at the conference quite seemed to work. When he tried to switch-hit on the civil-rights issue ("I know and understand the South"), North Carolina's Stevenson-supporting Governor Luther Hodges threw him a fast-breaking curve. Harriman, said Hodges, had no chance to carry the South because of his "Tammany Hall and A.D.A. connections." The situation called for a sacrifice...
...three times an hour when the reactor was in operation, the detecting instruments registered "an event"-two flashes of light of exactly correct intensity and timing. This meant that a single neutrino (out of many billions per second) had hit a proton (out of billions along its path) and turned it into a positron and a neutron. After watching this happen for a total of 1,371 hours and taking elaborate precautions to eliminate false signals, Reines and Cowan announced that they had really detected neutrinos. AEC Commissioner Willard F. Libby congratulated them on their "magnificent accomplishment." Now nuclear physics...
EMPLOYEE STOCK PLAN is a big hit at General Motors. Of 100,000 eligible workers, says G.M., some 90,000 joined plan in first nine months of operation, are putting an average 8% of their pay into company stock (matched dollar for dollar by G.M. contributions) and Government savings bonds. Employee savings to date: $32 million...
...Bold and the Brave. A war film with ideas that hit as hard as bullets; with Wendell Corey, Don Taylor, Mickey Rooney (TIME, April...
...John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers, coal companies, exporters, and big coal-hauling railroads. They have formed a $50 million corporation (which will issue 500,000 shares of stock at $100 apiece) to buy cargo ships, bring down the rising shipping rate and thus increase European exports, which hit 27 million tons last year, are expected to reach 44 million tons...