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...battled the black, doughnut-shaped monster for more than two hours. . . . Winds of 140-mile-an-hour velocity slammed us once to within 250 feet of the churning seas. The pilot and copilot worked feverishly to pull out, but it was like trying to swim up a waterfall...
...year's World Series, and a winter's brooding about it didn't help. Before the 1947 season was well along, American League pitchers, who once quivered at the sight of Ted and his big bat, confidently fed him inside pitches -the kind he used to pull into right field for singles and doubles. His smashes dropped harmlessly into the gloves of fielders, shifted into a solid defense wall to the right every time Williams came...
...affliction on you." Neither will she sing in church. "As long as I work for the Devil, I better continue with him. You got to sing for the Devil or go to Church and not talk back. When I get myself a man who will pull up a table to me and set like folks, I'll give up singing for the Devil, but until then I won't fool around with...
...really trying to stop them. Despite the outcries, women were already showing enough enthusiasm for the New Look to pull the dress industry out of its slump and set it humming. Hems of old dresses were being let down with such speed that many a town ran out of seam tape. Said Harper's Bazaar airily: "Clear your closet and get your clothes into the hands of those who can use them [in Europe]." But the dresses most likely to be sought would probably be closer to Sophie Gimbel's ideas than to Dior...
...sixth successive weekly rise, the Department of Labor's index of wholesale prices inched up .8% to a new postwar high of 153.5% (of the 1926 average). The Dow-Jones commodity futures index spurted 3.45 points to 152.03, highest since the index was started in 1933. Nothing would pull prices down, said General Electric's President Charles E. Wilson somewhat hopelessly, except "technological advances and more efficient mass production...