Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order will not affect players like Cleveland Pitcher Bob Lemon, whose $5,000 raise still leaves him well below the club ceiling (Pitcher Bob Feller's $50,000). But it was a rough jolt for Stan the Man, now 30, who knows that he has only five or six years more of big-league earning power at best. Cardinal President Fred Saigh immediately announced he would appeal the ruling. Major Leaguer Musial, who spent one earning year in the U.S. Navy, was not so hopeful: "If it's the law, there isn't anything...
...difference between the two chutes is the new way of packing, which eliminates most of the opening jolt. Several paratroopers who have jumped with the new chute claim they actually had to look up to see whether or not it had opened. Reported one happily: "It's like coming down on a featherbed...
...last week many a well-stocked retailer got a jolt. Retail sales, which had recently soared as much as 40% over last year's, dropped back to 1950 levels. Retailers blamed the drop on the freezing weather and the price freeze, which had stopped most of the beat-the-price-rise buying. If sales stay down, some of the frantic inventory buying, which has pushed up wholesale prices, is bound to diminish. Retailers are not yet worried about being caught with their stocks up. But soon they might...
Last spring, Ike Eisenhower told Congress that Alaskan defenses were in no shape to meet the potentialities of war. Kepner, for all of his awareness of what his command lacks, professes not to be so gloomy. "If the enemy invades, we'll hand him quite a jolt," he says laconically...
...knew it had scrawled its initials on a lot of North Atlantic Treaty rearmament programs, but last week, with a jolt, it discovered what some of the bill was going to look like. In the next year alone, the State Department indicated, France will get some $2 billion in arms and equipment. That figure was twice as much as the U.S. had paid for four of its past wars* put together. But it was only the beginning: eventually France would get about $6 billion...