Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cardinals was not included in his record of 46. It began two weeks later in St. Louis when he pitched the last three innings of a game that caused St. Louis' famed Third Baseman Pepper Martin to remark: "They shouldn't bother to put the home plate down when that guy is working." Stringy, taciturn, a contradiction of the baseball superstition that left-handed pitchers are mentally erratic, it took Pitcher Hubbell a long time to start working at all. Detroit scouts discovered him pitching for a minor league team in Oklahoma...
...paid Carnegie $492,000,000 when buying the company to found U. S. Steel. Mellon and Frick lost $1,170,000, the price they had paid Carnegie for the option. Angered, they started Union Steel Co. which promptly began to expand, bought or built blast furnaces, bar, wire, tube, plate mills; went to Mesabi for ore. Mellon provided customers for Union Steel: he started New York Shipbuilding Co. (see p. 41) at Camden and Standard Steel Car. He backed two young men and took a 60% interest in McClintic-Marshall Construction Co. Meantime U. S. Steel had been formed. When...
...thereabouts it was discovered that by the use of photographic plates which are much more sensitive to light than the human eye, would be a great advantage for astronomers. With the availability of photographic plates, the Harvard Observatory devoted itself to photographic work on the stars, taking photographs every night, until in 1890 they had a plate collection of several thousand. It was then necessary to enlarge the observatory so a new building was made to house the photographic plates...
...third inning. Pitcher Hallahan of the St. Louis Cardinals, wild in the second inning when the American League scored its first run. had already given Detroit's Gehringer a base on balls. Now, pitching to Ruth, he made the mistake of trying to whip a strike across the plate. There was that sharp familiar crack and the ball sailed up over first base into the pavilion beyond right field...
Last week tin plate production boomed up to 100% of capacity-highest level in its 40 years of history. But not since the trust-forming days of William Bateman Leeds, the one & only tin plate king, has there been a tin plate industry, separate and distinct. "Tin Plate" Leeds and his fabulous friends, Judge William Moore, promoter extraordinary, and Daniel Gray ("Czar") Reid, tossed their tin plate trust into T. S. Steel Corp. at a price which made the Elder John Pierpont Morgan groan. What they did keep was the tin can trust. Today most tin plate is made...