Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National League, the fourthplace Chicago Braves will take on San Francisco's Giants, current leaders in the early-season race. Also playing are: Philadelphia at Milwaukee, Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, and St. Louis at Los Angeles...
...Seesaw. A Greenwich Village girl and an Omaha lawyer take love for a pick-me-up, and life is passingly sweet, sad and funny...
...last year. When the overall March unemployment figures are released this week, they will probably show a 300,000 reduction in unemployment, to about 4,400,000. Seasonally adjusted, the figure is still about 6% of the labor force, and it leads economists to wonder if perhaps they should take a new reading on what is "normal" unemployment...
...from the earth, only to bury it again at Fort Knox. Government red tape is a fertile field for the common, or garden, variety of stupidity. In Britain a professional man applied for gasoline coupons and got them with the warning that his car could be used only to take him to his place of business and that "the return to your residence must be made by public transport." In the U.S. during the war, when promising soldiers were sent to colleges for engineering courses, the assignments were made alphabetically. The result: of 300 soldiers arriving at a small Southern...
...National League, the San Francisco Giants trounced the Cardinals, 6 to 3, to take a clean sweep of the three game series and first place in the league. The Los Angeles Dodgers, sparked by Don Demeter's two-run homer in the seventh inning, defeated Chicago's Clubs...