Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yanks were riding high. Catcher Berra was connecting for homers again. In one game, he hit two-the second one in the last of the ninth-to beat Boston all by himself and put the Yankees back on top of the league. Pitchers Byrne, Grim and Ford were back in pennant-winning form. Heading out this week for the season's windup with the Senators and the Red Sox, the Yanks had a solid two-game edge...
...including Adolph Gottleib, Ben-Zion, Ad Reinhardt, James Lechay and Richard Pousette-Dart, on their ways to regular dealers. One day in 1947, a one-time clown turned waiter, Walter Philipp, showed up with armfuls of clown paintings. Stix decided to give him a try, found himself with a hit on his hands...
...Industrial production in August hit a record 140 on the Federal Reserve Board index (1947-49 = 100), 17 points above a year...
...wake of the recent disastrous floods in New England, Connecticut's Governor Abraham A. Ribicoff loudly denounced as "ghoulish" reported attempts to lure hard-hit industries to the flood-free South. Actually, no industries have left the state as a result of the floods. But his suspicions were understandable. With industry spending a record $27.3 billion on expansion this year, almost every state, county and city in the nation is hungrily trying to lure new industries. Says Victor Roterus, area development chief for the U.S. Commerce Department: "Competition to get new industry has never been rougher...
...picture was going to be released. A musical remake of the 1942 movie (starring Rosalind Russell) that was, in turn, adapted from the 1940 Broadway play based on the humorous New Yorker stories by Ruth McKenney, the film must inevitably face comparison with Broadway's Wonderful Town, the hit musical (also starring Rosalind Russell) that derived from the same stories. The comparison is devastatingly in favor of Wonderful Town...