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...Labor? Big Labor's successful strikes in 1946 had helped to build the pressures which blew the lid off OPA and the ceiling off prices. Government statistics showed that Big Labor's weekly income had more than kept pace with prices since 1941 (see chart below). Big Labor had won these gains at the expense of unorganized workers, old-age pensioners, and professional and white-collar workers...
...great gift for spotting young talent, signing them up hastily, and training them wisely. In four years he has made Brooklyn's farm system baseball's biggest, outspreading the famed St. Louis Cardinals' system, which he built. The tree that Rickey is growing in Brooklyn (see chart) has 25 branches. This year 450 of its finest fruits were processed in Rickey's new training school at Pensacola...
Ingrid Bergman was another on Louis' list. His horrid word for her coifs: "vapid." Miss Bergman scarcely knew what to think. Simultaneously, the smart-chart Town & Country published a full-page, seven-picture spread of Bergman hairdos, held her tresses up to its readers as "a shining example...
...show of discouragement, few seemed to think that the U.S. was in for another steep price rise all around. Wheat and hogs made the headlines. But there were plenty of reasons why commodities in general would not follow. Hogs had been going their own wild way for months (see chart). Some metal prices, due to the worldwide shortages, might well rise some more-and stay up. But food was something else again. Wheat was up because of 1) a shortage of freight cars and 2) Herbert Hoover's recommendation that food exports to Europe be stepped up (see NATIONAL...
...bowlers, its control bowlers and those who specialize in slow, tricky teasers ("googlies"). The bowler gets up speed with a run of from, 10 to 50 feet, must not bend his elbow when delivering the ball. His chief aim is to knock down the batsman's wicket (see chart) for an out. The batsman, who defends the wicket, seldom tries to swat the ball out of the park (though over the fence, "a boundary," is an automatic six runs). He hopes to whack out a low grasscutter, since a ball caught on the fly is out. If he thinks...