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When he got home, Hannie discovered that in gaining his fancy new repertory of curves and fireballs, he had lost all control. To offset his disadvantage, he soon taught rival pitchers how they, too, could throw American style. By the time the Honkbal season opened, the mound performances endangered not only batters, catchers and fans, but ballpark passers-by as well. There were so many walks that runs often outnumbered hits...
...Pass to bring the water down through penstocks to the turbines. The generators would be in the rock itself, protected from the weather and enemy bombs. The power would be cheap enough (probably 2? per Ib. of aluminum v. 4$ at Alcoa's most recent U.S. facilities) to offset the cost of transporting alumina all the way north and finished aluminum to market. Alcoa is ready to raise the whole $400 million unaided, provided that 1) Canada will give permission to dam the river and divert the water, and 2) the U.S. will help Alcoa get title...
...candidates and delegates packed their bags for Chicago, there was a significant change of positions. After four weeks of uphill campaigning across the U.S., Ike Eisenhower has edged ahead. Taft still leads Ike in publicly committed delegates, but this advantage seems more than offset by 1) Ike's position as the second choice of favorite-son delegates and 2) Ike's growing strength among the uncommitted delegates, especially in Michigan and Pennsylvania...
...pundits could detect little, if any, psychological radiation. The vote was almost a standoff: Taft, 64,619; Ike, 64,004. Ike carried 38 counties, Taft 30. Taft's power in the rural areas, enhanced by his speeches for farm price supports and against universal military training, was largely offset by Ike's strength in the cities...
...Association: the increase will drive "many newspapers from the black into the red." OPS Boss Ellis Arnall, even more gloomy, said: "[It] will drive many small . . . newspapers out of business." Some publishers feared that they would have to raise their advertising and subscription rates as the only way to offset the big new bite, which will add an estimated $50 million a year to their publishing costs...