Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grain exceeded U.S. promises for the first time during the last third of May. But early sluggishness had imposed a stiff handicap. To be as good as its word, the U.S. needs to ship abroad 1,712,407 tons during June, triple its improved performance for May. The box score...
...read your fortune," whined an old gypsy woman at the grandstand where bunting fluttered and only a patch of bright new brick, where a bomb had struck, recalled a recent war. In a third-tier box a discussion raged over whether to open the champagne with lunch or stick to the burgundy. "My God," said one, "the redder with lunch. The champoo afterwards...
Planes zoomed overhead, but only the hunch-players were reminded of a 50-to-1 shot called Airborne. There was a hush as three stately maroon Daimlers rolled up the track to leave their passengers at the Royal Box. The whisper "They're off!" sounded as it always...
Smiling regally from her box was the new first lady, Eva Duarte de Perón, who had also come a long way up. Near her sparkled medal-spattered Constantin V. Shevelev, commercial representative of that same Soviet Union which had so bitterly attacked Perón at the U.N. Conference in San Francisco. He had come for hides and linseed oil, had stayed to announce the long-predicted resumption of diplomatic relations between Russia and Argentina...
...have been due to the coal and rail strikes. Or it may have been the record amusement-hungry crowds that jammed every race track and ballpark. Whatever the cause, there was a very slight slump at U.S. movie box offices during the month. But no exhibitor was either worried or feeling any pinch. So many people were still standing in line for movie seats that the trade described the slump as merely a drop "from super-sensational to mildly terrific" business...