Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kirby "Hollywood" Jordan has had one of the most colorful careers in organized baseball, a career which has taken him through three minor leagues, an-all-star series in Cuba, and spring training with a major league club. Still, the tall, handsome Chief, in charge of athletics for the Radar School, would much rather talk about clothes...
That year the New York Giants were organizing to play a series in Cuba an all star club consisting of the best players from each minor league. Jordan was having a great year in which he was to end up leading the league in homers, with 33, and finishing second in doubles and runs-batted-in. Bubber Jonnard of the Giants was sent down to scout him, and s Jonnard sat in the stands unknown to Jordan, the Texarkana star walloped a double, triple, and homer. As he rounded the bases on his four-master, Jonnard bolted...
...three years, probably much longer, may be needed to get Malayan and East Indian plantations back into normal production. Then, even if crude is cheaper than synthetic-say as low as 10½ a pound as against the present Buna S minimum of 14?-competition will still be a minor point because of the potentially enormous demand...
Coach Flyod Stahl's Crimson nine finally lost a ball game, but it took a powerful Boston Coast Guard outfit, studded with former minor leaguers, to turn the trick, 7 to 0, at soldiers Field last Wednesday...
...Waugh, satirical English novelist (Decline and Fall, Put Out More Flags) and Comman-doman. As the plane neared the field it went into a dive and crashed, killing the five-man crew and two Partisan passengers. Churchill, Waugh, British War Correspondent Philip Jordan and four Russian officers escaped with minor injuries, next day were evacuated by plane to a British hospital in Italy...