Word: recording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sensation caused by this unheard-of price made Jacob Ruppert a magic name in baseball. In 1923, after a squabble, he bought out Partner Huston for $1,200,000. Same year he opened the $2,500,000 Yankee Stadium. He paid record salaries ($80,000 to Babe Ruth one season), built up the most extensive, most expensive chain of farm teams in the country...
...sport, deep-sea angling has become one of the most glamorous, gregarious sports in the U. S. Once content to catch a big fish and talk about it forevermore, today a deep-sea angler wants to keep on catching a bigger fish than his neighbor, yearns to break a record -or at least see his picture in the papers alongside the monster he has conquered...
Since many record fish have been landed off the southeast coast of Florida, Miami is headquarters for winter anglers. Last week, with bands blaring and airplanes circling overhead, a mile-long flotilla of fishing boats, five abreast, paraded out of Biscayne Bay. It was the opening of the 99-day Metropolitan Miami Fishing Tournament and 2,000 deep-sea anglers, who for weeks had been dreaming of sailfish dancing on their tails, were off for the Gulf Stream four miles away to try their luck, skill, and endurance...
...first week the largest fish registered was an Allison tuna weighing 138½ Ibs., the biggest sailfish a not spectacular 71½ pounder. But fishermen were hopeful. A world-record white marlin (161 Ibs.) was caught off Miami last spring...
Poking behind some furniture in a shed near the McKesson & Robbins plant in Bridgeport, Conn, one day last week, Post Office Inspector Samuel MacLennan found two old ledgers. They contained the record, written in his own hand, of 16 of the 18 years that Philip Musica lived and swindled as F. Donald Coster. Confronted with the diaries, the three surviving Musicas promptly pleaded guilty to violation of the Securities & Exchange Act. SEC Examiner Adrian S. Humphrey thought them so important that he adjourned his inquiry until the ledgers had been studied...