Word: rundown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...situation is not, however, quite so bad as might be indicated by this rundown of probable starters; for some of the Crimson's convalescents are enough improved so as to be available for at least limited duty this afternoon. In this category are halfback Chet Boulris, fullback Sam Halaby, center Bob Foster, and left end John Copeland...
Reform begat renewal. Civic-minded Bruce Palmer, president of Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. announced that "thanks to the new climate." his corporation was not only staying in the city, but would also build a $10 million home office in downtown Newark. Forty citizens from the rundown Clinton Hill area hustled off to Philadelphia to study rehabilitation projects; another group went to Pittsburgh to view the Golden Triangle. The Rutgers University law faculty pitched in to help on legal problems, and Newark businessmen volunteered staff services...
...telling them how, the Braves caught their second wind, sprinted down the August stretch with a ten-game winning streak that broke up the race and left them an almost unbeatable 8½ games in front of the fading Cards and Dodgers. The only question left: Who among the rundown also-rans will stumble home second? ¶ At a boozy boosters' banquet during which he was supposed to tell Detroit sports fans how his Lions were going to win back the professional football championship, Lion Coach Buddy Parker suddenly switched signals and announced: "I've got a situation...
...started by a young Essen merchant named Friedrich Krupp, who switched to making steel when Napoleon's blockade of England cut the Continent off from supplies of high-quality British steel. Friedrich died a failure at 40, leaving his 14-year-old son Alfred the company name, a rundown factory and an obsessive devotion to steel. Though his relatives called him "stupid" for following his father's dream, Alfred started at 15 to learn to produce high-quality steel. He went to England under an assumed name to study British methods, in young manhood rebuilt his factory, soon...
...down by the growing competition of the fast-rising ABC network and independent stations. Thus, advertisers will have to pay more to reach a given number of viewers in the future. It is making them nervous, safe-playing, and eager for "the sure thing." This season, a Variety rundown showed last week, they have canceled 55 of the 121 nighttime shows on the three networks. Next fall will see TV's most drastic change in program schedules-and the least promising...