Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Puerto Rico Planning, Urbanizing and Zoning Board. The Land Authority tackled the job of enforcing a 40-year-old law limiting holdings of real estate by corporations to 500 acres. By the eve of 1948, the Authority had spent $25 million and reclaimed 70,000 acres, mostly from the big sugar companies, in order to establish land cooperatives and subsistence homesteads. (Its costly land-purchase program has now been slowed considerably; the budget allotment for next year...
...days later, Olympia was loaded onto a plane at La Guardia Airport and flown to Louisville. With the big race only twelve days away, Kentuckians were still waiting to be shown that Olympia could carry his dizzy speed over the mile and a quarter Derby route. He also had to prove that he was a better horse than Old Rock-port-and a couple of Kentucky sleepers, Johns Joy and Ky. Colonel...
...final of the Copenhagen Open. Pasadena-born Dr. Dave Freeman, 28, had not lost a singles match in ten years, but the Europeans had considered most of his victories minor-league stuff, scored against so-so U.S. opposition. In Copenhagen, he was playing in badminton's big league...
...Badminton. Since a Japanese American introduced him to badminton 14 years ago, Dave Freeman has been a talented athletic radical. After winning the National Junior Tennis Championship at 17 (he beat Ted Schroeder and Jake Kramer consistently in those days), he gave up big-time tennis because practicing bored him. Although he was besieged with athletic scholarships, he paid his own way to attend Pomona College, then went on to Harvard Medical School. Beginning in 1939, playing when the mood suited him and following no training rules, he was Mr. Badminton...
...Teik Hock in the Thomas Cup matches (badminton's equivalent of the Davis Cup). He beat the champ in what many a badminton fan thought to be a fluke win. Last week, after proving it was no fluke, Dave Freeman made an announcement: he was through with big-league tournament badminton. Henceforth he would play only...