Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newcombe was wheel horse of the Dodger staff. At 23, instead of pacing himself, he worked as if he were in a hurry to catch a train-motioning impatiently for the ball no matter whether he had just thrown a third strike or had one belted out of the park...
...Beta Gauge, which measures the thickness of a material by spraying it with beta particles (electrons) from a radioactive isotope and gauging their penetration, was first installed last May in Continental Paper Co.'s plant at Ridgefield Park, N.J. It worked so uncannily well that rubber, paper mills and other industries all began clamoring for it. To meet the demand, Tracerlab has tripled its space by moving into a nearby six-story building paid for out of $1,196,000 of new capital raised last spring with a stock issue. It expects to step up gauge production from...
Other winners of the week: ¶ At Chicago's Washington Park, Calumet Farm's Ponder, with Jockey Steve Brooks up, sizzled a mile and a quarter in 2:oo|-a new track record. The $66,150 he won made Ponder the turf's leading 'moneywinner of the year ($267,525). ¶ At Chicago's Comiskey Park, Red Sox Left-Hander Mel Parnell hurled his team to a victory over the White Sox, 11-4, became the first major-league pitcher to win 20 games this year...
Died. Starr Nelson, 84, oldest flying farmer in the U.S. (he got his pilot's license in 1941), who had logged over 1,000 hours in the air; of a heart attack; in Estes Park, Colo, (where he was to receive a fourth successive annual award at the National Flying Farmers convention...
Battle Stations. In St. Louis, during an argument in Sportsman's Park, Baseball Fan Joseph Cherry took off his glasses, removed his false teeth, then punched Usher William F. Goza in the nose...