Word: batches
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...left St. Louis for a potentially greener pasture, Brooklyn. While other clubs, waiting for the stars to return, played wartime baseball with tired old men, Rickey was signing bright young prospects to Brooklyn contracts before Uncle Sam took them away. At war's end, Rickey had the biggest batch of young baseball talent in the country. In 1947, the Old Mahatma had given Brooklyn its second pennant in 27 years...
...Mexico. Five years ago, when Maglie left the Giants for the Mexican League, few fans were upset; Pitcher Maglie had never amounted to much. When Sal rejoined the team last spring, Manager Leo Durocher figured that, at 33, Maglie might possibly make a relief pitcher. Durocher had a batch of strong-armed younger men who looked more like starters, so Maglie sweated it out in the bullpen...
Despite the fact that most arms contracts were still in the planning stage, there were already ominous signs of production trouble, notably in the aircraft industry. Since it has the biggest batch of orders ($5 billion), the scramble for materials was already shooting prices up. Machine tools were up 10% and rubber goods 15%. Warned the planemakers: the appropriations for the planes now on order were no longer big enough to pay for them...
...standard routine in going after the big boys (300 Ibs. and up) is to use a batch of expensive equipment, hire a trim cruiser with a smart crew, then settle comfortably into a special swivel chair and wait for the fish to bite. Commander Hodgson got his tuna the hard...
...first big batch of orders since the Korean war was placed last week by the Army Ordnance Department. From Detroit, where the staff of the tank arsenal runs the show for automotive ordnance, contracts went out for tank-type vehicles of the same family as the new light tank to be built by Cadillac (TIME, July 31). American Car & Foundry Co. (Berwick, Pa.) and the Massey-Harris Co. (Racine, Wis.) will build howitzer carriages, the International Harvester Co. (Melrose Park, Ill.) armament personnel carriers, and the Pacific Car & Foundry Co. (Renton, Wash.) gun motor carriages...