Word: automan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Automan Charles T. Fisher's Amber Light, winner of a Derby tune-up at Churchill Downs last week...
...give the angry dealers relief, OPA's automan Cyrus McCormick has already promised that they will be allowed to sell at least 340,000 cars this year. Last week OPA eased the rules covering registration of new cars. Meanwhile Nash announced that it would lend its dealers $10 cash per car per month until March...
...Carleton Burke (only Far Westerner ever admitted to the Jockey Club) and Boston-born Charles E. Perkins, who had kept on raising polo ponies and show horses during California's lean years, began to enlarge their stud farms. Newcomers like Cinemagnate Louis B. Mayer, Lawyer Neil McCarthy and Automan Charles S. Howard imported the best English thoroughbreds that money could buy.* Crooner Bing Crosby imported expensive South American horses. Between Los Angeles and San Francisco, 200-odd stud farms sprang up, ranging from backyard paddocks like Clark Gable's to $1,000,000 ranches like Harry Warner...
...race 35 times when he was only two years old. Not much as a breadwinner, he was put in a Saratoga claiming race when he was three, but no one thought he was worth $6,000. Shortly afterward, the sturdy little bay caught the eye of San Francisco Automan Charles S. Howard, who bought...