Word: num
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...championship went to the Pohlar's Cafe team of Cincinnati (owned by the proprietors of a German beer garden), whose pitcher, Clyde Kirkendall, had pitched 127 consecutive scoreless innings (a record) earlier in the season. Women's championship, won by Cleveland's Num Num Girls for the past two years, went to the J. J. Kriegs of Alameda, Calif, (owned by a little clothing merchant...
Station Manager Walter Lyle who in September 1934 jotted down the license num-ber of the Hauptmann car on a $10 ransom bill. Other awards: $5,000 to Truck Driver William J. Allen who found the kidnapped baby's body in May 1932; $2,000 each to Banktellers William Strong and William Cody who identified ransom bills; $1,000 to Walter Lyle's co-worker John J. 'Lyons for taking the $10 bill to Teller Strong; $1,000 each to four witnesses who helped identify Hauptmann; $500 to a fifth, and the balance of the reward...
...adequate hospitalization for persons acutely ill from conditions other than infectious and contagious diseases. The new construction will not remedy the appalling and well-nigh unbelievable conditions existing insofar as tuberculosis, neuropsychiatric conditions, infectious and contagious diseases, incurable and convalescent patients are concerned. . .. Medical and social agencies estimate the num-ber of open tuberculosis patients in New Orleans alone as at 2,500. The Charity Hospital now houses 314. There are at least 2,000 chronic and incurable cases of cancer and heart disease who require proper hospitalization. No facilities are now available to these poor, unfortunate sufferers...
...Playing Card was promoting bridge in this fashion through 155 stations in the U. S., 15 in Canada. So popular did the broadcasts become that nearly 200 newspapers reprinted the studio games for their bridge fans. Today Cardman Albert believes that the trend will turn toward old num- bers like hearts, poker, pinochle, where individual skill is more important than teamwork. So long as the U. S. plays cards Mr. Albert does not care what the game happens to be. For years his com pany has made more than one-half the decks sold in the U. S. (last year...
...Reader Mallon delve deeper into baseball statistics and he will be less amused by TIME'S technically accurate expression of Di Maggie's achievement. Since records are kept of the total num-ber of bases each player hits for during a season and since eight bases in one inning equaled an American League record, it was necessary to state both the number of bases and the manner in which they were scored. Conceivably a player could make two three-base hits and one two-base hit all in one inning, thus totaling eight bases without a homerun...