Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Back in 1929, the twelve cars that were running at the finish of Indianapolis' famed 500-mile Memorial Day race were powered by eight-cylinder engines. But the engineering specialists who design racing autos reasoned that with fewer moving parts, fewer things could go wrong with an engine. Last week, the twelve cars that finished the furious grind at Indianapolis-at speeds up to a record-breaking 121 m.p.h.-were all four-cylinder jobs...
Said Danny Kaye, who will be back in the U.S. next month: "I give the audience some emotion, then I can feel it coming up from them. It goes back & forth in waves...
Today the theater still has a large kitchen and a farm, but 90% of the admissions come in silver and greenbacks. Says Porterfield: "If another depression comes along, we'll just go back to taking beans and 'taters for admissions...
That was too much for six Flora businessmen. They organized a syndicate to buy up the mortgage on Crowder's newspaper plant. When Crowder went to the bank with $800 in back payments, he learned that his mortgage had been sold for $8,500 to "my worst enemies." The syndicate, headed by Oilman E. D. Given, promptly slapped a judgment on Crowder's property, and the sheriff tried to seize the press...
Wall Streeters have had an uneasy feeling about long holiday weekends ever since 1946. That year, after a three-day Labor Day weekend, they came back to work in a restful and unsuspecting mood, only to see the big wartime bull market collapse in six days of heavy selling. Last week, after the three-day Memorial Day weekend, they came back feeling pretty nervous. They had reason...