Word: swaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baseball swap, the New York Yankees talked the Baltimore Orioles out of seven players, including "Bullet" Bob Turley, one of the best pitchers in the American League. In exchange, the second-division Orioles picked up aging Outfielder Gene Woodling, weak-hitting Infielder Willie Miranda and seven other...
...Nashville's Cokesbury bookstore started a drive to swap Bible story cartoon books for commercial comics. For every comic book a child brings in, Miss Lilyan Doss, manager of the store, will trade, without charge, any one of the following: Jesus in Jerusalem, The Story of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, John the Baptist and Jesus in Galilee...
...ordinances because they are concerned about the effects of scattershot censorship, have turned to a better method of control. In Cincinnati, for example, a citizens' committee of businessmen, educators, clergymen and parents rates every comic book published. In Canton, Ohio, a mayor's committee started "Operation Book Swap," in two days collected 12,000 horror comic books, which were exchanged at the rate of ten to one for hard-covered books, e.g., Swiss Family Robinson, Treasure Island, Alice in Wonderland...
...businessmen, who like nothing more than getting together at trade conventions, recently have been getting together in another way. They have embarked on the greatest merger spree in history. In the past few months, by stock swap or outright purchase, Nash and Hudson became American Motors, Hilton Hotels took over the Statler chain, Mathieson Chemical and Olin Industries combined. Still more big mergers are in the making throughout industry. Packard and Studebaker stockholders vote this week on consolidating. Bethlehem Steel is talking merger with Youngstown Sheet & Tube, and Textron is working on a three-way merger with American Woolen...
...border. The G.I.s were nowhere in sight. "Neither a shot nor a passionate discussion" had been heard, the border guard reported. The passionate discussion came next day. Usually, unarmed strays from either side are herded back without argument. But this time a Czech major said that his government would swap the Americans for three Czechoslovak forestry workers who had fled to Germany seeking asylum on June 30. The Communists appeared hotly anxious to get the three Czechs back...