Word: aqueduct
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city sprang up where no city seemed to belong. It built a 233-mile aqueduct, ruthlessly sucked away the water of the distant Owens River-a project which turned the verdant Owens Valley to desert and stirred its farmers to rebellion. It constructed an artificial harbor, hatched the motion-picture business and raised oil derricks and searchlight beams. Its full-voiced Chamber of Commerce ballyhooed to climate. The city gulped in armies of aging lowans, land-hungry Oklahomans and dazzled tourists...
...working life at the New York tracks but never places a bet, is boss of Pinkerton's New York Racing Service. Since April, when the racing season started, O'Grady and his 300-odd P-men have ejected, or warned, about 500 bookies at Belmont, Jamaica, Aqueduct and Saratoga. For this and other services, New York's racing associations pay the Pinkerton agency about $1,000,000 a year...
...another rider rammed him right after the start of the Cowdin Stakes at Aqueduct. Arcaro saw red. He wheeled his horse out, cracked him with the whip and went after the offender. "I must have done that next eighth in 10 flat," he says. He caught up with the other jockey, Vincent Nodarse, and al most put him over the fence. The stewards called Arcaro up to the stand, asked him if he had done it on purpose, and expected the usual denial. Instead Arcaro blurted: "I'd of killed the son of a bitch if I could...
...massive publicity campaign to lure settlers. Items: pamphlets entitled "Land of Heart's Desire," barnstorming trains full of oversized California vegetables, claims that "mad dogs and sunstroke are never known here." Under Wiggins, the Chamber spearheaded the development of the city's $220,000,000 aqueduct and its $59,000,000 artificial harbor. His uninhibited supersalesmanship put the Los Angeles Chamber...
...apart from the pack. As a three-year-old, he did not run in the Kentucky Derby (in fact, he never ran a race in his native state), but he won the Belmont by 20 lengths. One good horse, John P. Grier, made Red extend himself one day at Aqueduct, and nobody who saw the race will ever forget it. The pair of them ran nose-&-nose, breaking world's records at every furlong pole along the way (the five furlongs in 157 2/5, the six furlongs in 1:09, the mile in 1:35 3/5, the mile...