Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...second game, the Phillies' Robin Roberts and the Yankees' Allie Reynolds went into another pitching duel and at the end of the ninth the score was 1-1. In the tenth, Joe DiMaggio stepped up and demonstrated his old specialty: winning ball games with clutch home runs. Score...
...made a lot of errors in my life," he said, "but that one . . ." Actually the series had no goat. It also produced no new towering heroes. The standouts, apart from the pitchers: aging (35) Joe DiMaggio, on his fielding and clutch hitting; quiet, self-effacing Yankee Second Baseman Jerry Coleman, 26, 1949's rookie-of-the-year, who figured in five of his team's six runs in the first three games...
...story tells of a middle-aged man whose unwanted invalid wife suddenly dies. Almost immediately the man marries the Other Woman (Marian Russell)-a young girl he is smitten with and has got with child. But there is a second Other Woman-an older one, madly in love with the man, who has long imagined that he is in love with her. At this point it turns out, as was obvious all along, that the invalid was poisoned; and at this point the murderer's identity is almost as obvious...
...cases in one week, 8% below the previous week's 2,170. The total for the "disease year" (beginning in mid-March) stood at 20,405, as against 32,204 at the same time last year. Most likely there would be 30,000 cases before 1950 ended, second only to last year...
...second quarter, the 22 major U.S. manufacturing industries earned $3.2 billion after taxes, 34% more than in the previous quarter and 59% more than in the same period in 1949, the SEC reported last week. Largest increases were in such housing boom products as furniture and fixtures, lumber and wood, stone, clay and glass, and in cars and auto parts. Only decreases: printing and publishing, clothes and finished textiles, textile mill products...