Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...generally ranked with Man o' War, has been idle since he was "fired"* for an ankle injury five months ago. According to present plans, he will run in Chicago this summer. Shuddering to think of how much poundage handicappers would pile on him, Ben Jones is looking ahead to such weight-for-age fall classics as Belmont's Jockey Club Gold Cup and the Pimlico Special...
...hope soon to get their share. Last week Vickers-Armstrong showed off its Viscount 700, in most respects a conventional-looking craft. The novelty was the four engines. They carried ordinary propellers on their noses, but instead of being blunt and thick, the Viscount's engines stuck out ahead of the wing like half-cigars (see cut). On these slender "turboprop" engines Britain is pinning her commercial airplane hopes...
...cuts. Last week, the Department of Commerce reported that first-quarter output of goods and services in the U.S. was at an annual rate of $256 billion, off $9 billion from the final quarter of 1948 in the sharpest drop since the war. Still, the pace was $1 billion ahead of the average for 1948, biggest year on record. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that manufacturing employment fell by 330,000 between mid-March and mid-April. But seasonal increases in trade and construction offset the loss, and the three-month decline in overall nonagricultural employment had stopped...
...Crimson went ahead in the bottom of the seventh, 4 to 8 Robinson singled for the third time. Akillian moved him to third on a hit-and-run single, and Ralph scored on a wild pitch...
Freshmen Forge Ahead...