Word: platee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stories that draw drama from the roar of the blast furnace or the power play in the executive suite. There is room on the bestseller list for a socio-economic study-The Organization Man, Judd Saxon, a comic strip based on business, runs in 160 newspapers. Yet, as Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. Vice President Leland Hazard complained last week: "The daily press just doesn't seem to be set up to look in depth into business problems...
...York's Yankee Stadium for an Oldtimers Day reunion of former Yankees and Detroit Tigers, Joe DiMaggio at 42 still looked good enough to make the league, cracked out a single in a brief exhibition "game" of the ancient pros, later trotted the winning run across home plate with oldtime grace...
Busy Little Fingers. In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a 13-year-old who enjoyed leafing through the encyclopedia, was turned over to juvenile probation authorities after the discovery that he had assembled two-by-fours, a box and a sharpened steel plate to make a small but serviceable guillotine...
...mound, the poker-faced Negro pitcher calmly munched on his toothpick and watched the New York Giants straggle up to the plate. Then Sam ("Toothpick") Jones of the St. Louis Cardinals slowly cocked his right arm and fired in his whistling fast ball. When Toothpick headed for the clubhouse one night last week, he could look back on a slick two-hitter. And the Cardinals had won another one, 5 to 1 to stay in front of the National League pennant race...
...shut up shop as of the close of the 1956-57 fiscal year. Last week, with only about 100 employees remaining of the 12,000 it had in its prime-and only $80 million worth of loans unrepaid of $50 billion authorized-RFC took down the bronze name plate over its rented office quarters in Washington, turned its remaining assets over to other Government agencies, and passed out of existence. RFC, taking it all in all, had had a wondrously successful career...