Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...homers. The Chicagoans looked like they would repeat the performance next day, but young Buck Shaw threw three bad pitches. Two were hits out of the park by 155-pound Charlie Neal, the other by Chuck Essegian--the first of his two pinch homers that set a Series record...
Senator Harrison Williams suggested the other night that the record of the first session of the eighty-sixth Congress was as liberal as could be expected in a society dominated by complacency with the present...
...bench, boyish-faced Jim Gilliam, 30, filled the big hole at third. Picked up from St. Louis, craggy-browed Outfielder Moon, 29, lifted the team with his slashing play. The big pitcher turned out to be Roger Craig, 28, a lanky, laconic righthander, who had a horrendous 5-17 record last year at St. Paul. This year Craig developed an assortment of soft stuff to go with his fastball, by last week had compiled a 10-5 record and an earned-run average of 2.13, lowest of any starter in the league...
...second quarter, U.S. corporations reported the largest quarterly increase in nine years in working capital. The $3 billion boost brought the total to a record $125.4 billion...
...Consumer Price Index in August declined .1% from the July record to 124.8% of the 1947-49 average, the first decline in the index since last February. Primary reason: a .9% drop in food prices, which made up for an average increase of .2% in nonfood commodities and services...