Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last season was Campy's worst ever. His left hand, hit by one of Yankee Allie Reynolds' World Series pitches, was badly bruised, and his batting average sank to .207. He wondered whether he would ever play again. After a while, the hand was partially paralyzed. This spring, after an operation, he was back. Two fingers of his left hand were still stiff, but, said he: "I can curl them around a bat handle, and that's what counts." At a gathering of baseball writers not long ago, the grand ballroom of New York's Waldorf...
...hike of 12.3% above the previous half year, to $42,575,770, set still another high mark. Little Steel was not to be outdone. Operating at 101% capacity, Jones & Laughlin netted $12,926,000 in the second quarter, 104% above a year ago. while Bethlehem, averaging 100.6% capacity, also hit a new quarterly high of $47,006,062 (including about $5,000,000 profit from sale of stock) v. $30,755,412 for the same period last year...
WINDFALL-PROFITS PROBE on FHA housing projects has hit a snag. The U.S. Court of Appeals upset a one-year jail sentence for ex-FHA Assistant Commissioner Clyde Powell, who okayed projects that netted builders some $500 million in unwarranted windfall profits. Though Powell refused to tell a federal grand jury how he banked an average $27,000 yearly from 1945 to 1953 (on a salary of only $12,000), the Appellate Court said the Government prosecutor "outrageously misrepresented" the facts in getting his conviction, ordered Powell acquitted in the name of "common justice...
...board chairmanship and remains chief executive officer. Barnet developed a nodding acquaintance with Pepsi-Cola as a member of a New York law firm which handled Pepsi's business, did so well that in 1949 he went over full time. Put in charge of all concessions, Barnet hit the spot, and within a year was twice promoted to veep in charge of national sales, then to vice president in charge of domestic operations. In 1954 he became executive vice president. Under Steele and Barnet, Pepsi's earnings have risen from $1,618,744 m 1950 (when Steele took...
...Roberts. First-rate retelling of the long-run Broadway hit about life aboard a Navy supply ship, with Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon (TIME, July...