Word: 42nd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from flipping over. No stranger to the Brickyard, Irish Pat O'Connor had racked up some 2,000 miles there in four other 500s. But experience could not save him. He suffered a fractured skull, died in flaming wreckage. The first lap was not yet finished and the 42nd Indy 500 had scored the race's 48th fatality. Elisian, whose harebrained driving had touched off the crash, drew a belated suspension from all races sanctioned by the U.S. Auto Club...
...42nd annual meeting of the National Industrial Conference Board in Manhattan, a panel of economic experts took the view that no real business upturn is likely until next year at least. One of the big reasons for the pessimistic view: a new report from businessmen pointing to a further decline in spending for plant expansion that will last into...
Ever since 1880, all of Argentina south of the 42nd parallel has been an on-again-off-again free zone. The motive of President after President was to encourage settlement of the empty, rocky area, once regarded hungrily by land-poor Chile as a possible zone of expansion. The result every time has been smuggling on the grand scale from the free area past the sparsely guarded parallel. Patagonia's population has continued to be mostly sheep (14 million in 1955) and goats...
...summers ago Perry Miller suggested that Madison Avenue be razed from 42nd to 57th Streets. This would eliminate most of the great advertising agencies, decimate the radio and television networks, and destroy the headquarters (at 44th Street) of the legendary Gray Flannel Suit...
BILLION-DOLLAR CLUB has another member, its 42nd. The company: Minneapolis' Cargill Inc., one of the nation's biggest grain dealers, whose sales topped 1 billion in fiscal...