Word: recording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...geography has made Don Reid the nation's busiest death-house-beat man. Huntsville has Texas' only execution chamber (electric chair) and, as a wire-service stringer, Reid has been watching men die since 1937. Milton Williams was the 158th-a total Reid believes to be a record for U.S. newsmen. For many of the men, Reid is the only visitor. He has written letters to their wives and mothers, once shipped a body back home to Indiana. He has twice saved men by persuading officials to reopen their cases, has been begged by longtime dwellers on death...
Schwartz is now working on a record about the prizefighting business, has plans for records on superstition, old age, the reasons why people move. Meantime, he continues to collect the bittersweet songs of the slum children...
Wilhelm was sent to the Cardinals, then to Cleveland in the American League. The Indian batters gave him no support, their catchers could not hold his knuckle ball and despite a 2.46 earned run average, he had a 2-7 record...
...never finished higher than eighth in eight previous "500" races. He nursed the dirty-white Leader Card Special in front to stay on the 86th lap, sped home the winner by a tight 23 sec. over Veteran Jim Rathmann. Ward's average speed-135.857 m.p.h.-was a new record for the race, earned him well over $100.000 in prize money...
...rush to buy sent manufacturers' sales in April smashing through their pre-recession peak, reported the Commerce Department last week. Sales reached $30.2 billion v. $29.1 billion in March, and new orders also set a record by climbing $800 million above March. For this reason-and other signs of heartiness in the economy-Commerce Department reported that the recovery is proceeding "at a better-than-seasonal pace and on a broadening scale." But it pointed out that the upward surge of the boom is still ahead: despite a 2% rise in industrial output above pre-recession highs, the rise...