Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...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...
This year, Rickey's Dodgers, winners of the 1949 National League pennant, were picked by the experts to run away with the pennant once more. Instead, in second place last week, they were taking the dust of the pennant-bound Phillies. Last week, also, a secret was out. Rickey, always a wise head at selling at the right time, had put his block of Brooklyn stock (25% interest) up for sale. The asking price: something around $1,000,000. The man on the inside track: New York Realtor William Zeckendorf, who specializes in big deals (he gathered...
...news had brought handsome returns. Last week Media Records reported that the evening Journal (circ. 325,039), led all U.S. newspapers in advertising linage for the first eight months of 1950. Though published in the nation's 13th city (pop. 632,938), the Journal was ahead of the second-place Chicago Tribune by 750,000 lines. Last year the Journal took in $20 million and made $2,000,000 after taxes...
...furlough in the U.S., he had two practical gifts: a tractor presented to him by St. Paul's Church in St. Paul, Minn, and "a splendid shotgun" given by the First Lutheran Church in Worthington, Minn. He has used the first to grow corn, beans and tobacco, the second to shoot "three lions and many hyenas." His days range from dullness to drama, from frustration to reward. His letter describing one exciting 24 hours appeared last week in Current
...second reading, the news did not look very frightening. A.T.&T., said Leroy Wilson, needed the extra stock (up to 3,000,000 shares of which it hoped to sell to its own employees) and more money simply because it had more business than it could handle. Even after $6 billion had been spent in postwar expansion to add 12,500,000 new telephones to its previous 22,000,000, the company still had 800,000 applicants waiting for service. It needed to spend $1 billion a year on expansion. To pay for it, A.T.&T. proposed to issue...