Word: parts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tight moment, and Pitcher Joe Page had been summoned from the bullpen to cool off the aroused Boston Red Sox. As Page began the long trek to the mound, Henrich stepped up to him and said: "You hold it and I'll win it." Page did his part. Two innings later, with the Yanks trailing, 3-2, Henrich picked up a bat and smashed a home run into the rightfield seats, with one man on base, to win the game, 4-3. Page spread the story and a new feeling of confidence and cockiness hit the Yankees. Pitchers like...
...same (Offenhausers made by the Meyer & Drake Engineering Corp.) that are used in most other racing cars. But Master Mechanic Moore does not use them the way they come from the factory. He pulls down each engine to the last nut & bolt, polishes intake and exhaust valves, magnafluxes each part to see if any hidden defects exist. He buys the chassis, too, adding his own refinements in design...
After the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, A.P. saved his business from fire and looters by lugging its assets away in vegetable carts. A few days later, before the other banks could gather their wits, A.P. was open for business in another part of town. In the panic of 1907, the Bank of Italy rode through safely, thanks to Giannini's cautious hoarding of gold. As a horde of settlers poured into California to start ranches, orange groves and vineyards, the Bank of Italy lent them the cash they needed and spread its branches throughout the state. To consolidate...
...fitted satisfactorily a cutaway that he had bought 20 years before; so confused that he started the wedding march on the wrong foot; and so dazed that he became hypnotized by the expression of the minister's nostrils and muffed his only line in the service. He spent part of the reception chasing stray dogs out of the house, and unlocking bumpers and directing traffic in the improvised parking lot behind the house...
Slichier stated that "the community, in the main, will remain laboristic," but he added, "business will recover part of the intellectual initiative which it has lost in the last generation. As a result, the community, which is in danger of being transformed from one in which business was dominant to one in which labor in dominant, will become a genuinely co-operative one in which management and labor contribute a fair share of the important ideas which win acceptance from the community and which therefore determine the course of history...