Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Consumers' Counsel of AAA calculated that retail food prices had risen 12% in a year. The National Industrial Conference Board calculated a 21.5% rise in food prices from April 1933 to the close of last July. With bigger price rises ahead, consumers might find the prospect gloomy but the Department of Agriculture officially reassured them: "What shortages do exist can be compensated for by shifts in the diet to use more of the foods which are available in abundance. As a whole, these shifts can be accomplished without any severe burden on consumers as to cost, or any material decrease...
...which, on a percentage basis, had most flagrantly broken its pledge happened to be the Conference's host last week, hence could not in decency be flayed. Solemnly His Majesty's Government gave its word last year "not to encourage any extension of the area sown," then went blithely ahead paying subsidies to wheat growers in Great Britain with the result that the Kingdom's acreage shot up by 6%. For this His Majesty's Government offered last week no apology or explanation...
Last week Secretary of Agriculture Wallace pushed his land reclamation program ahead another notch by organizing a party to search for a grass hardy enough to grow in the drought-made deserts of the Midwest. To head the party he chose a Russian-born mystic who has spent most of his 59 years painting 3,000 pictures and preaching to three continents the gospel of Unifying Humanity Through Art. He was grave, goat-bearded Nicholas Konstantin Roerich, honorary president of Manhattan's Roerich Museum. What made him valuable to Secretary Wallace was that from 1924 to 1929 he painted...
...Colonel Edward Riley Bradley's Bazaar came into the stretch a length ahead of the field in the Saranac Handicap. With a ghostlike rush, Jockey Wayne Wright brought Kievex up on the outside of the track, beat Bazaar to the wire by a head. Three days later, Colonel Bradley was consoled when Boxthorn won the Saratoga Special...
...into the stretch. The phenomenal sprint in the last quarter-mile with which he wins his races he developed in early-morning practice workouts. His jockey's instructions were to "breeze" him for three-quarters of a mile, where another horse from the Sloane stable would be broken in ahead for Cavalcade to pass. If the fresh horse showed signs of outrunning Cavalcade in the workout, he was held back to permit Cavalcade to gain confidence by winning. Cavalcade never jumps the gun at the start of a race, has good manners in the paddock, usually walks to the post...