Word: records
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first season Veeck took over, attendance jumped from 558,182 to over a million; two years later he set a big-league record...
...Deeply Resent." Indignant Hester McCullough called up Igor Cassini of the New York Journal-American, in whose Cholly Knickerbocker column she had read some of the Adler-Draper Red-bordered record. Cassini said the Journal-American would furnish her with information that Adler and Draper supported eight or nine Communist-front organizations. Fortified with the list, she wrote the Association...
Judging by what happened in Washington, it may well break the 2,500,000 attendance record set by last year's traveling exhibition of masterpieces from the Berlin Museum. The opening day's crush made even Manhattan's gum-cracking Daily News sit up and take notice...
...green canvas of Washington's Uline Arena, Gonzales got his lumps in a hurry. Big Jake polished him in 40 minutes, a new record for the tour. The odd part of it all was that Pancho's booming cannonball service was becoming steadily more accurate-and at the same time steadily less effective. But Big Jake, seven years older and wiser than 21-year-old Pancho, had the explanation: "I wait a little longer on his serve and I've quit guessing where it's going to go. I know...
...climbed to 14 million tons the week ended Nov. 19, highest point since April 1948. Unemployment was dropping in the cities that had been hardest hit in the spring recession and the fall strikes. And the automakers were chestier than ever. General Motors predicted that it would make a record 2,750,000 cars and trucks this year, nearly half the industry's output, and promised to equal or top that...