Word: recording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Face of the Pittsburgh Pirates stopped a rally in the eighth, but gave up two runs in the ninth to lose to the Dodgers, 5-4, dropped his first game since May 30, 1958, and snapped a 22-game winning streak. Cracked Face, as he regarded his 17-1 record: "Well, Walter Johnson lost...
...meet in Salt Lake City, rotund (5 ft. 5 in., 190 Ibs.), taciturn Arnold Riegger, 39, a sometime airplane mechanic of Longview, Wash., who has broken nearly every trapshooting record in the last eleven years, blasted 300 clay pigeons out of the sky, running his streak to 1,307 for a new world record...
...FARM OUTPUT will come within 1 % of last year's record high. August rains in most parts of nation are boosting predictions for record corn crop of 4,381,772,000 bushels v. 3,779,844,000 last year, but wheat crop may drop to 1,116,405,000 bushels v. record 1,462,218,000 last year...
Cole hopes to sell at least 300,000 Corvair '60s, plus 1,500,000 standard Chevies. If he does, he will beat 1955's alltime Chevy sales record of 1,720,000. He also expects the U.S. market to be big enough next year for all comers, big and small, to prosper. "Car sales for 1960," says Cole, "should be at least 6,900,000, including imports...
...Loren M. Whittington of Cleveland's Society National Bank. "Business has to get money for inventory and capital spending by borrowing. But banks are pretty well loaned up." Inventory buying has already begun to level off. In 1959's first half, manufacturers boosted inventories by a near-record $2.9 billion, raised the total to $52.1 billion, fast approaching the alltime high of $54.2 billion in mid-1957. But in July, inventories rose by only $100 million. The steel strike is another major factor in slowing inventory buying. "Steel is having its recession right now," explains a steel company...