Word: recordation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found a new trick or whether he had merely shifted his grip a little, nobody really knew. But he got off on the 1948 winter circuit at Riviera with a sparkling 275 (nine strokes under par) to win the Los Angeles Open and set a new course record. At St. Louis in May, he gave Mike Turnesa one of the worst drubbings (7 and 6) of Mike's career in the final of the P.G.A. championship. Last June at Riviera, where he got the big one -the U.S. Open-he chipped five off the old tournament record...
...Thanks for the Check." At Buffalo in August, he all but ran Porky Oliver off the course in the Western Open playoff; Hogan had seven birdies and an eagle for a course-record 64. Later when the committee asked him to say a few words, the story goes that Ben seemed reluctant. So a friend got up and said: "I travel with Ben Hogan quite a lot and he has a set speech for these occasions. It goes something like this, 'Thanks for the check...
...Payoff. Capital, too, proved worthy of its hire. Net profits for the year were an estimated $21 billion, compared to $17.4 billion the year before. (Industry's slice of the national pie was still slightly smaller than its record in 1929.) Though some of this profit was fictitious, i.e., a profit on inventory rather than actual sales, many an industry had done so well that even a drop in profits next year would leave it well off. As one businessman put it: "Our earnings have been superduper. From now on they'll be merely super...
Steel production of 88.5 million ingot tons, while it was about 4% above 1947, was still below 1944's record production. Although steelmen blamed the shortage on "abnormal demand," the fact was that steel capacity and production had not even kept pace with the normal growth of population. In 1948, capacity per capita was only slightly more than it had been in depression 1932; production per capita -.as below 1941. Those who talked of "abnormal demand of the boom" failed to take into account the fact that much of it would be normal demand from now on, not only...
...before turning to automobiles in 1910. Driving his famed "Bluebird" over the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in 1935, he was the first to crack the five-mile-a-minute mark (he hit 301.1292 m.p.h.*); he switched to speedboats, and four years later, on Lake. Coniston, England, established a record 141.74 m.p.h., which has never been equaled...