Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Undismayed, the trustbusters wound up to swing the sledge on General Electric Co. A year ago G.E. was found guilty of monopolizing the manufacture of incandescent lamps through control of patents and price fixing. Last week, Federal Judge Phillip Forman, at Trenton, N.J., was considering the Government's demand for a drastic penalty. Though G.E.'s share of U.S. lamp production has declined from 82% in 1912 to 58% at present, the Government asked that...
Vice President Barkley had to order the packed galleries to refrain from demonstrations. Connally hoped sarcastically that the order did not apply to Senator Millikin-"because his physical exertions here are so attractive as to obliterate completely his intellectual achievements." Connally took one last swing at his opposition. The Republicans were trying to kill the whole foreign-aid bill by making an issue of Point Four, he cried. Taft's arguments were an example of statesmanship "with a little 's.' " As for Donnell, Connally scoffed, he would not be against Point Four after November. "As soon...
Under Pomerantz' prodding, Little admitted that his family trust, American Associates, Inc., had turned a quick $700,000 profit by buying & selling the Newmarket Mill at Lowell, Mass. Textron, offered the same chance, had turned it down because, said Little, Textron could not get a loan to swing the deal. In a second deal, Textron had bought the Suncook Mill in New Hampshire for $1,750,000 in 1943. Only a month before Textron bought the company, Little admitted, his family trust, which had been buying Suncook stock since 1933, had bought an additional 2,000 shares. Asked Pomerantz...
Irons tipped Tom Cavanaugh's bat as he tried to swing on an inside fast ball, and Cavanaugh was given first. He advanced to third when Godin got his first of two hits and then scored as Eddie Foynes flied out. Caulfield went out, third base to first, advancing Godin to second. The lanky pitcher scored as John White, hero of the last Crimson ball fame, displayed his now-found power, driving a ball deep to center field for a triple. White scored a second later on an infield error...
After a brief stint in Cambridge, the varsity baseball team returns to the road this afternoon for its first "western" swing. The trip includes two league contests, Pennsylvania this afternoon and Army tomorrow...