Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National League, the third-place Milwaukee Braves finished far ahead of the pack in the profitable statistics of home-town attendance: a record total of more than 2,000,000. Just for fun, the Braves set another major-league record (minor variety): they replayed the last inning of a protested game with the Cincinnati Redlegs, played a full nine with the St. Louis Cards, and won both times...
...arms over the latest Richmond deal. What upset the townspeople was an announcement by Republic Steel Corp. that it would buy most of the production facilities of 142-year-old Follansbee Steel Corp., the company that gave the town its name, pack them on freight trains and move them to Gadsden, Ala. The seller: Fred Richmond. Since Follansbee employs 90% of the town's work force, the deal spelled disaster. Said Mayor Frank Basil: "There won't be anything here to keep this community alive...
...with ease. As far as the spectators were concerned, they were merely pace setters. The crowd was all with Tusek and his scorched, drum-nosed Steamer. Desperately, he got up at dawn each day to tinker with new fuel mixtures. Somehow he managed to keep up with the pack...
...waters of rivers in the state of Washington. Industry and government studies have also been started of Alaska's icy rivers, where this year's sockeye catch was skimpy for the second successive season. But thanks to the commission's fishways, 90% of the U.S. salmon pack this year will be sockeye, spawned in the Fraser...
...Atomic Deposits. For those who want to protect documents and other valuables from atom bombs, the Railway Express Agency has set up a service to seal them in bombproof, ventilated concrete vaults deep inside Iron Mountain, near Hudson, N.Y. Customers pack their possessions in cylindrical metal containers three inches in diameter, one foot long. Rental: $10 the first year, $5 thereafter...