Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Farm Prices. Thanks to lean years, the Democrats have made serious inroads into the state houses and congressional districts of the traditionally Republican Midwest. But 1958 has blessed farmers with bounteous crops-and hiked farm income 22% above last year. Agriculture Secretary...
...smells of speed blistered the white Bonneville salt flats of Utah. Engines revved up to blatting roars. Whiffs of alcohol and nitromethane mingled with the tang of high-octane gas. With anxious care, some 200 men in oil-blotched coveralls coaxed their handmade cars to bellowing perfection-long, low, lean monsters with as many as three engines crowded beneath their sleek hoods. In the tenth annual speed trials that ended last week, the world's hottest hot-rods were shooting for 300 m.p.h. on the world's fastest race course...
...Lean & Powerful. At week's end, with a month left to play, Banks was hitting a lively .313 and leading the majors with 42 home runs and the league with no runs batted in.* Far behind were such famed sluggers as the Giants' Willie Mays (23 homers) and the Yankees' Mickey Mantle (83 runs batted in). Banks seemed a sure bet to become the eighth player-and the first shortstop-ever to hit more than 50 homers in a single season. Moreover, Cub fans with a faith in miracles hopefully noted that Banks was just three games...
What makes Banks's blasts so remarkable is the fact that he is as lean and limber (6 ft. 1 in., 176 Ibs.) as any good-field-no-hit shortstop, a breed that traditionally has had trouble banging the fences. But Banks has powerful wrists and forearms. "You grab hold of him and it's like grabbing steel," says Cub Manager Bob Scheffing...
...Curtice, the whiz-bang salesman, production and styling expert. In the shift, Curtice's job and power were split. Donner was named board chairman (succeeding Albert Bradley) and chief executive officer. For the presidency, the board picked a dark-horse candidate from G.M.'s executive pool: lean (160 Ibs.), baldish John Franklin Gordon, 58, who had been vice president for the body and assembly divisions. Fred Donner will continue to work from New York, watch G.M.'s pocketbook, speak for the company on broad policy. Jack Gordon will handle production in Detroit, probably do much...