Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson has lost its last two games, both league affairs, by substantial margins, and now stands with a 7-7 overall record. The explanation for the poor performances of late can be largely attributed to one factor--bad shooting. Against Yale on Saturday, for example, the varsity hit for only 33 percent from the floor, most of the shots taken at short range, and a meagre 35 per cent from the foul line...
...Steel output hit a 15-month high of 2,111,000 tons weekly, was scheduled to rise again last week to an 18-month high. Operating at 74.6% of capacity, the steelmakers were besieged with so many orders that backlogs were mounting...
...price index, which has been recorded conscientiously by the Government since 1890 and projected back as far as 1749. The index shows that prices have generally risen in times of prosperity or of war, fallen in times of depression. During the severe depression of the early 1890s U.S. prices hit their lowest level in history...
UNITED AIR LINES, not hit by strikes, almost doubled its net earnings in 1958 to record...
...share in 1958, almost the highest profit in its 59-year-old trucking history, in a year when overall truck sales dropped 18%. Of the profits, $3 per share were racked up in the final quarter. Said White's Black: "I am confident that our current year will hit a new sales record...