Word: ripping
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...Again. To some, the parallel between last week and 1919-when the fall of commodity prices heralded the 1920 "snap" depression-was so clear that one U.S. Department of Commerce expert remarked: "If a modern Rip Van Winkle had gone to sleep in 1919 . . . and awakened in 1946, he would feel very much at home...
...Labor Government found itself in the middle of a rip-roaring open-shop v. closed-shop fight last week. On the open-shop side hovered management and Britain's bevy of small, independent unions. On the closed-shop side hulked the big unions. The issue: Can the Government, of which the big unions are the mainstay, use its powers to enjoin the closed shop...
...stars followed his lead with transcriptions, any independent station would be able to air talent that only networks can now afford. If Philco accepts, the show will probably go on over ABC or Mutual. The big networks, NBC and CBS, have too much to lose; large-scale transcribing could rip them apart...
...Lanky Williams stepped into it, put his powerful wrists into the swing at the right moment, just like a golfer. The ball sailed 380 leet into the right field bull pen for a home run, his second of the afternoon. It was the first time anybody had ever smacked Rip's ephus ball for a homer...
After watching Williams hit Rip Sewell's ephus ball last week, Manager Steve O'Neill of the Detroit Tigers said flatly: "I call him the best hitter the game has seen. That means he's superior to Ty Cobb." At week's end, the new Ted Williams looked it, hitting three homers and bringing in eight runs in one game against the Cleveland Indians...