Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the tornado hit nearby Udall. Gart went into action. During the next 50-odd hours, he directed the activities of five of his reporters, contacted some 20 Kansas photographers for picturesand coordinated the storm coverage of two TIME staff correspondents, Don Connery of the Chicago Bureau on the ground, and Frank McCulloch overhead in a chartered plane from Dallas. Gart was still feeding copy to TIME in the small hours Saturday as a new storm lashed Wichita, hail rattled on the Eagle windows and the radio blared new tornado warnings...
Ward was chosen as the league's top pitcher on the basis of his overall record, although he possessed only a 1-0 league record. Botsford led the league in batting with a 417 average, while Butters hit 270 in league play and showed power by smashing three home runs during the entire season...
...Federal Reserve Board indicated that it expects gross national production to hit a total of $380 billion by year's end, almost $15 billion higher than the previous peak in 1953, and $23 billion better than...
...happen because the French economy, despite the course of government, has been growing steadily stronger. Industrial production rose to a peak of 175 on the index (1938 equals 100) at March's end, up 20 points over a year ago. Steel production in the first quarter hit a record rate of 12,800,000 tons annually...
...Britain (7.6% v. 6.5%). it has rebuilt only 500,000 homes v. Britain's 2,000,000. Despite record sales abroad, the foreign-trade deficit was $49,500,000 in March-partly because France stubbornly concentrates on exporting such low-profit items as textiles and semifinished steels. Industry, hit by high wage costs and elaborate fringe benefits imposed by strong unions and by government fiat (to avoid strikes), has tried to recoup by price-fixing and cartel schemes rather than modernization and better production methods. Nevertheless, U.S. Ambassador Douglas Dillon (onetime board chairman of the Manhattan investment firm...