Word: macke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history, a sales gain of 8% to $2.1 billion. International Business Machines' President Thomas J. Watson Jr. announced quarterly earnings of $21.3 million for another alltime peak, and more than the company's total annual revenues 25 years ago. Du Pont, Douglas Aircraft Co., Revlon, Mack Trucks and Schering Corp. were all at new highs, while Kaiser Steel Corp., American Cyanamid Co. and Radio Corp. of America showed solid six-month sales and earnings gains over...
...intellect. For catchers, once they have mastered the mask, chest pads and other "tools of ignorance," seem to make the grade as big-league managers almost as consistently as big-time businessmen make the team on Republican Cabinets. The bright tradition runs way back to the late Connie Mack and Roger Bresnahan. And from Mr. Mack on through Gabby Street, Mickey Cochrane and Al Lopez, few major-league catchers-turned-manager have matched the swift success of George Robert Tebbetts...
...motorcade that resembled a Roman triumph crossed with a Mack Sennett chase, the sultan followed his soldiers. Reporter James Morris, then with the London Times, was at his side. Morris camps his story at the oases of human interest, from Mohammed's legendary prayer ("Honor your aunt, the palm, which was made of the same clay as Adam") to vignettes of Arabs setting their watches by the sun and "sweetening" their beards with incense. There is still only one God and that is Allah, but oil is profit, and Author Morris is happy that he saw Muscat and Oman...
Podres's pitching enabled the Dodgers to save one game of their four-game series at Connie Mack Stadium. After four scoreless innings, the Dodgers finally brought home one run in the fifth and seventh frames, and two in the ninth...
...General Dynamics Corp. showed a profit rise of 103% (from 56? to $1.13 a share) on a sales increase of 93%. The Union Pacific Railroad Co. increased its profits from 67? a share to 73?, and Northern Pacific Railway profits rose from 54? to 73?. Earnings of Mack Trucks, Inc. rose 33% above the 1956 first-quarter level (from 89? to $1.18 a share...