Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industries: Gulf Oil, Koppers, Aluminum Co. of America, the Mellon Bank and the General Reinsurance Co., which have total assets of more than $3.3 billion, and in which the Mellons have absolute or dominant control; First Boston Corp., Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co., Westinghouse Air Brake Co., Pennsylvania Railroad, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., in all of which the Mellons have large interests...
...five innings before rain and darkness reduced the playing field to a London for scene. Had the Flock lost, it would have been the first time a game was lost by three minutes. Apparently it really started pouring immediately after the fifth inning, for a seeing eye dog from plate umpire Al Barlick reported to the press box with the intelligence that the game was hereby called...
...look out over the baseball field (over the catcher's head), right field is to my right. So, it seems to me, Stan Musial squares off on the right side of the plate, not the left...
...most likely to become baseball's rookie of the year is a huge (6 ft. 4 in.) pitcher named Don Newcombe. He weighs 235 lbs. and throws baseballs so hard that to batters they look like aspirin tablets coming toward the plate. Around the National League, players agree that the hulking giant in a Brooklyn Dodger uniform is the best right-hander in the business...
...curve snapping and his control excellent, Newcombe shut out the St. Louis Cardinals (6-0), the Pittsburgh Pirates (9-0), then the New York Giants (8-0). He went one more inning against the Boston Braves-for 31 scoreless innings in all-before he let a run cross the plate. At week's end, the New York Giants managed to shell him out of the box, but it was the first time in his last seven starts. His record: w. 15, l. 6. Although everybody has tremendous respect for his curve and control, the secret of Newcombe...