Word: baling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret of keeping horses high in flesh, Missouri-style, is so fundamental that many horsemen pay little heed to it. The secret: hay. When the feed man delivers a bale that doesn't strike Ben's fancy, back it goes. "I can smell hay, or feel it in the dark, and tell whether horses will like it," he says...
...quickly spread to the stock market. The Dow-Jones industrial average fell 3.52 points for the week to 175.60, wiping out all the gains since mid-December (at the start of this week it dropped again). The New York Cotton Exchange quivered sympathetically; prices tumbled 95? to $1.30 a bale...
...haydrops were accurate-sometimes too accurate. A rancher who asked that a bale be dropped close to his house was astounded to see it crash through the roof of his front porch...
Around the middle of last February, the big brass at the Yale Athletic Association must have decided that maybe Bill Bingham was right. So they gave up trying to lure Lon Little from the peace and security of Morningside Heights with the aid of a bale of cash, and started looking for a bright young...
...pattern is also apparent in two other of the quasi-credible series--Jack. Armstrong and Sky King. The bad men aren't so slick and brainy as the Sword, but the two heroes are correspondingly less able than Midnight. Armstrong's prowess as a crook-catcher rests on the bale of Wheatics he consumes each morning. Sky King is the executive director of troops of eager youngsters who fly all over the hemisphere making mischief, apparently on leave of absence from high school...