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...heavy toll was largely caused by the horse's civilized stupidity. Five of the Arden racers which had been led to safety broke loose, ran back into the blazing barn and perished. After generations of being groomed and cared for by man, horses feel that their stalls are the best and safest place in an emergency. They don't know what fire is and have little or no wild instinct left to warn them against...
Back of the Barn. The public swiftly caught on to every unethical trick. The man who wanted a new automobile in a hurry, but had no car to trade in, knew that some dealer would sell him a secondhand car at $800 and then take it back in trade at $400. The OPA was virtually helpless against the racket in autos. It caught some little fish (some of them several times), but snagged few really big ones...
...lumber-running-on the highways outside San Antonio and Austin, Tex., there is lively bidding each night at $1,200 for big truckloads of lumber worth $720 at ceiling prices. In almost every rural area, war veterans with priorities bought new tractors, sold them back of'the barn at $500 profit. In Florida, cement building blocks (ceiling 17?) had a current black-market price...
...years ago, in New York State's horsy Saratoga Springs, the thoroughbred bug bit Elizabeth Arden. She bought a $1,000 yearling race horse named How High, and hired not so high (5 ft.) Clarence Buxton as trainer. Elizabeth Arden, who had no children, fluttered out to her barn, talked baby talk to her first horse, spoiled him. They parted company because Trainer Buxton treated him like a horse...
Says Elizabeth Arden: "A beautiful horse is like a beautiful woman." An ugly horse doesn't stay long in Arden's barn, even if he can outrun Satan. About two mornings a week she shows up at the track to make sure her "darlings" don't get too much fresh air, or too little. She worries about flies biting them, and orders screens. Her horses once came down with a misery, and Arden ordered them rubbed down with her Ardena skin tonic instead of horse liniment, which, she said, smelled terrible. The trainer told her the stuff...