Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Shtin's average speed for the second heat: 100.68 m.p.h. Old record: 94.285 m.p.h., set last year by Stanley Dollar's Skip-a-Long. Jubilant Auto Dealer Sayres was delighted over his boat's performance, but he was already taking a look ahead. Said Sayres: "We have a faster boat on the drafting board now . . . 200 m.p.h. is not impossible...
...Brooklyn, Dodger First Baseman Gil Hodges hit four home runs against the Boston Braves to tie the major-league record (for a nine-inning game) set by Lou Gehrig in 1932. Brooklyn...
...much scare buying had the war set off? Last week the Federal Reserve Board provided the first rough measure. In July, it reported, installment purchases of automobiles, refrigerator's and other durable goods had sent consumer credit soaring $660 million, well above the $457 million rise in May and $550 million in June, to a total of $20.3 billion...
...that is expected to boost sales $1,000,000 this year. Adolph Rosenberg and his brother Samuel, 57, a Universal vice president, did not strike it rich in matches until after they had burned their fingers elsewhere. Adolph quit high school to work in the piece-goods business, later set up a woolen company with Sam, lost it, turned to manufacturing a mothproofing liquid, and lost that, too. Then the Rosenberg boys borrowed $100,000 from friends (among them: two of Detroit's famed Fisher brothers), hired 15 people and started making matches in a loft in downtown...
Young Man's Fancy. In Dallas, police set a trap for a masher who had been calling up housewives and asking for dates, caught up with a 13-year-old who arrived for the rendezvous riding his bicycle...