Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer long, some 200,000 baseball players have battled each other to get to Williamsport, Pa. (pop. 45,000). Organized in more than 11,000 teams in the U.S. and its territories, Canada, Cuba and the far Pacific, they played under familiar club names-Yankees, Braves, Tigers, most of the big-league roll call. Less than one team out of each thousand finally made it to Williamsport last week. A few days later, after six teams had been eliminated, the two surviving clubs met in a final game for the world championship. Some 8,500 hoarse fans, burning with World...
From the Lake Erie shore east of Toledo rose a droning peep-pop of small arms. Occasionally, the peepers' chorus was lost in the bullfrog boom of a heavy Army artillery piece sullenly bellowing from a nearby ordnance depot. Then, for nearly a mile along the lake front, the small-arms drone, insistent and incessant, was heard again. Last week, with something of the sound of mock war, the National Rifle and Pistol Matches were in full crackle at Ohio's Camp Perry. More than 1,300 sharpshooters, the deadliest of U.S. deadeyes, plunked slug after slug through...
...white frame building in Ashland (pop. 8,000), Ore. one afternoon last week, some 140 people packed into seats in a low-ceilinged, fetid room 30 ft. square. Many wore bandages or held to canes and crutches. Some bore the grimace of chronic pain. But all stood up when a thin, wrinkled woman in white nurse's uniform and fancy-print apron with prominent pockets came...
...year, the needs are pyramiding. They are most acute in Southern California, the fastest-growing region in the U.S. Los Angeles now has a population of about 4,000,000, expects 6,000,000 by 1960 and 10 million by 1970; San Diego County (pop. about 700,000) is planning for 1,250,000 by 1960, twice that...
Kaffeeklatsch. Al Rothschild, president of the Rothschild Co. department store, second largest in Rock Island, Ill. (pop. 48,710), has served 40,000 cups of coffee and 40,000 cookies free to shoppers since last October. Starting his plan as a goodwill gesture, Rothschild offered $125 a month to any women's church group that would volunteer to do the serving, has had plenty of takers. The snack is served from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, has helped boost sales in Rothschild's 16-month-old store as much...