Word: plates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slugging from their superstars, Harmon Killebrew and Al Kaline. Yet as of last week, Minnesota's Killebrew had clouted only three home runs in his last 68 times at bat, and Detroit's Kaline had collected only four base hits in his last 24 trips to the plate...
Steel was the key indicator, and its upward climb promised a renewal of public jousting over prices between the Administration and industry in general. Since January, steelmen have been boosting prices in bits and pieces-in tubing, then tin plate for can making, followed by hot-rolled carbon and alloy plates-with only a whimper from Washington. Not until just before the Labor Day weekend, when Republic Steel dropped word of new prices in steel bars, did the Administration react. Ackley condemned the move, professing a belated astonishment at the fact that higher prices have already been chalked...
...batter insists, the plate umpire will examine the ball-but by then the evidence has dried up or been wiped away by the catcher. In one game at Boston, visiting hitters complained so often that Red Sox pitchers were doctoring the ball that Umpire Hank Soar called for it, examined it carefully, found it clean-and in a gesture of resignation spat on it himself before firing it back to the mound...
...name of Calvin Coolidge Ermer, 43, who took over as manager when Sam Mele was fired on June 9. Ermer's total previous big-league experience consisted of one day in the uniform of the Washington Senators, during which he went 0 for 3 at the plate. But he had served a 20-year managerial apprenticeship in the minors. The first thing he did was break up the locker-room poker game. Each night on the road, to make sure his Twins got their beauty sleep, he personally tucked them in. When eight players missed...
Even as the indicators pointed toward resurgence, there was talk of tempering the upswing to avoid inflation. Prices generally have been rising, and last week Bethlehem Steel Corp. announced that it was hiking the base price of hot-rolled carbon and high-strength plate by $4 a ton. The specter of inflation has long worried the Johnson Administration and, in fact, is the main reason it gives for requesting a 10% tax surcharge on individuals and corporations. Last week, at the House Ways and Means Committee hearings on the proposal (see THE NATION), many Congressmen seemed determined to resist higher...