Word: stretched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shells still hidden in the debris of the shattered city. With his close police pal Gerhard Raebiger, he removed fuses from some 8,000 dud bombs, some 10,000 grenades. Through the years of reconstruction he was on call day and night, sometimes working 48 hours at a stretch on some particularly ticklish job. Once, when rubble removers uncovered a nest of three blockbusters smack in the middle of a heavily populated apartment district, he shoveled away the rubble himself to get at them; then for 18 hours he sweated out the delicate job of taking the fuses...
...Braves lost a close one, 3-2. But in the rubber game they ran through eight Dodger pitchers and collected 13 hits (including four home runs) to win another for Burdette, 13-7-proof positive that they have finally buried their fainthearted, four-year habit of folding in the stretch...
...experts still figured it for the second division. Even in 1954 third place was not too bad; Milwaukee still loved the Braves simply because they boosted the beer town into the big leagues. But in 1955 the Braves should have won the pennant; they folded in the stretch and finished 13½ games behind Brooklyn. Last year the love affair between Milwaukee and its ballplayers really wore thin. After exciting the fans all season with the promise of a pennant, they backed down again in the last week of the season and left their town in the lurch, one game...
McDonnell's President James S. McDonnell Jr. estimates that the Demon stretch-out will not cut McDonnell Aircraft's present record employment of 27,000; it will only keep it from climbing to the new peak that had been expected. The stretch-outs, in total, will cause far fewer layoffs than earlier anticipated. Last week the Pentagon estimated that this year's $1 billion to $1.5 billion slash in aircraft orders will trim the industry's payroll by 5%-a drop of 40,000 workers from the total 800,000. Since the industry has a high...
Stepped Up Sales. Despite the stretch-outs, backlogs and sales are fat. United Aircraft reported last week that first-half shipments rocketed to $604 million from $458 million at the same time last year, and earnings reached $26 million, v. $21 million. McDonnell's sales are 24% ahead of last year's rate. Chance Vought's sales are 72% ahead of the 1956 period, and the June 30 order backlog reached $467 million, up $200 million from a year ago. While some plane makers fear that sales and profits will nose down next year, they will still...