Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hooted at the idea-but they changed their tune when the Cardinal organization produced Rickey's famed "Gashouse Gang" managed by Frankie Frisch and featuring Dizzy Dean, Ducky Medwick, Leo Durocher and Pepper Martin. With as many as 32 minor-league teams operating full blast, Rickey had a virtual monopoly on young talent. The Cardinals won the World Series in 1926-and over the next 16 years they went on to win five Na tional League pennants and three world championships...
...reported last week that consumer prices edged up again in October to a record 110.4% of their 1957-59 level, bringing the gain in the past year to 1.8%. Unemployment fell to an eight-year low of 4.2% in November, just a bit away from what the Administration considers virtual full employment. Still, the U.S. does not yet have classical inflation-a sustained price rise of more than 2% a year. Industrial production is rising faster than the supply of money required to absorb it, and wage gains have stayed comfortably ahead of price increases (see chart...
Cambridge Seven is a virtual manpower center for the School of Design. Five of its members have Harvard appointments and teach there or at the Carpenter Center. The firm has renovated the basement of the Brattle Theatre...
...European extremists. When I was home this summer one of them said to me, "If we allow the Africans to take over the government there will be chaos. Look what happened a few years ago in the Harari African township when the two rival African parties declared a virtual war on each other and started burning each other's huts down. If the European law had not stepped in the total African population may have become involved. How can we let these people govern our country...
Died. Natalie Dunfee Kalmus, 87, co-developer in 1914, with her late Chemist-Husband Herbert Kalmus, of Technicolor, first and still most widely used color film process, who served as color director (1915-49) when Technicolor had a virtual monopoly of the field, turning out such early successes as Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), Becky Sharp (1935), but quit after losing a bitter California divorce suit against her husband when it came out that they had been secretly divorced since 1921, thus invalidating her claim to half his property, estimated at $3,000,000; of an intestinal obstruction; in Boston...