Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exempted from the antitrust law by a 1922 ruling that it was not engaged in interstate commerce, big baseball has wasted little worry--until now--on the reserve clause. As Chandler put it, the members of the $5000 to $100,000 income brackets can hardly be called peons. In recent years, however, the national sport has received more and more of its income from radio and television. As such, it has now come within the jurisdiction of the interstate commerce laws. And the minor league wages still remain low; Chandler's statement obviously did not include minor leaguers whose paychecks...
Bush noted that a danger of starvation exists, but said that investigations into the nature of photosynthesis may well make it possible to produce protein and carbohydrates synthetically. Russell asked "alarmists" to "look at vast...lands with rich soils and abundant water" that still remain to be cleared and put into production...
...York's union cab drivers struck yesterday in a city-wide dispute that emptied the streets of most of the city's 11,510 taxicabs, and the city's entire police force was put under "gravest emergency" orders. Although some drivers defied pickets there were no reports of any passengers being molested. The striking union called the walkout in a bid to win recognition as bargaining agent for the cab firms' drivers, mechanics, and other employees...
Janet Long '50 of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania will head Barnard Hall for the coming year. Briggs Hall put Virginia Ogden '50 of Kansas City, Missouri into the presidential post...
Some of them were soldiers and were wearing breastplates, and some were peasants and were wearing patched-up pillowcases. All of them were wearing pink tights. These worked very well; we simply put them on over our bare legs and pulled them very tight, and they looked just like bare legs...