Word: tipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capital goods is imported, and paid for with agricultural exports, this could have only one consequence. "In import plans," Po went on blandly, "major reductions have been made in the amount of general machinery and transport equipment, to provide incentive to our own machine-building industry" (a cautionary market tip for those who think trade with Red China will amount to much...
...Baseball," Birdie told his men, "is exactly what Branch Rickey said it was: 'A race between a man and a ball.' Baseball is a game of inches. A guy catches the ball on the tip of his glove, a batter tops a ball and beats a throw to first. Or a fellow gets up in the ninth and comes through with a liner between third and short-he's a hero. Two inches the other way and he's a bum because he hit into a double play. The only thing...
...TIP ON A DEAD JOCKEY, AND OTHER STORIES (242 pp.)-Irwin Shaw-Condom House...
Each day at dawn an explosion of sound reverberates through the hills above California's Carquinez Strait, 30 miles up San Pablo Bay from San Francisco and the Golden Gate. At the sandy tip of a new superhighway pushing across the hills from Richmond to the industrial town of Crockett, an army of mammoth machines comes noisily to life; their motors growl and their exhausts spout blue fumes into the mountain air. Tough, broadnosed bulldozers hungrily tear up the soil; potbellied scrapers scoop and level it; lumbering compact-ers press it down with their massive weight. Directly before...
Downwind. In Jersey City, police got a phone tip from Kenneth Thompson, 21, of a tavern robbery by a "good-looking guy," confirmed the theft, tracked down handsome Tipster Kenneth Thompson...