Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Floor & Ceiling. To regulate gas, the commission must stretch its . authority over 140 interstate pipeline companies to cover 2,300 more independent gas producers. This raises some thorny problems. Ordinarily, in setting rates for a public utility, the FPC examines the company's costs, investments, etc., then fixes a price that will bring a fair return, usually...
...Razor's Edge. At 13,000 ft. they crawled down the last dangerous stretch: a razor-edged ridge of blue ice. They were roped together, with Argus leading. He was carefully cutting holds when Thayer, the last man, slipped and shot down the sIope.The other three tried to brace themselves, but they went hurtling down...
...attended by a psychiatric horse doctor. Never Say Die was a careful fifth. Almost out of sight behind the gorse at the far turn, the field thundered into the dangerous, downhill arc of Tattenham Corner. Rowston Manor faded. Landau quit. And then, in the stretch, Never Say Die made his move. Booted by his 18-year-old jockey, Lester Piggot, he passed the wire a healthy two lengths ahead of another 33-to-1 shot, Arabian Night. The youngest jockey to ride a winner in Derby history had ridden the first American-bred winner since Iroquois...
...York Yankees, often accused of buying up all the best ballplayers, tried a new talent-grabbing trick. Yankee scouts spotted Billy Joe Moore, 24, playing first base for the Oklahoma State Prison team. Though Moore, doing a seven-year stretch for burglary, is not due for release until next year, the Yanks talked the warden and the parole board into sending him to Grand Forks, N. Dak. to play minor league ball. If Moore stays out of trouble, said Yankee Scout Tom Greenwade (discoverer of Mickey Mantle), by next year he'll be playing Triple A ball...
...held Germany. At Anzio he landed with the assault troops; on D-day he hit Omaha Beach with the first wave of the 1st Division. "For a war correspondent to miss an invasion," Capa said jauntily, "is like refusing a date with Lana Turner after completing a five-year stretch in Sing Sing...