Word: broods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Boussac got last week for winning the St. Leger made him^the leading 1950 money-earner on British tracks. He was already the French Deader by a country kilometer. Back of his long string of victories is a string of 300 horses including 100 brood mares and eight stud stallions. About 100 of the horses are always in training under oldtime French Jockey Charles Semblat. When they cross the Channel, they travel in a special Bristol...
...running the legs off his two-year-olds, he can afford to race them sparingly, then bring them up to the longer, richer races for three-year-olds & up. At his two stud farms in France, Boussac breeds top race horses by mating successful stallions (like Tourbillon) with proven brood mares (like Astronomie). He has also tried some daring experiments in inbreeding. One was to mate a full brother and sister. The result was Coronation, one of the meanest-tempered horses ever to kick a groom, but winner of last year's Prix de l'Arc-de-Triomphe...
...follow their profession for any considerable length of time. They tend to be snapped up by sensible young men. A nurse learns to care for other people's pains, instead of spilling out her own problems. She takes to family life like an old hen taking over a brood of chickens. It's no wonder there's a nurse shortage...
Pork on the Highways. McKellar shuffled off to brood over his grouches and, later in the day, to take his turn presiding over the Senate. There, Tennessee's irascible spoilsman encountered another enemy-Paul Douglas of Illinois, who had tried his best, without success, to pry some of the pork out of the same $32.5 billion omnibus appropriation bill. Now Douglas was attacking the pork in a $1.2 billion roads and highways bill...
...days he had persuaded scores of grocers to stock his wares. In the first year he sold $22,000 worth of baby foods. As sales grew, so did Gerber's family (to five children), and as he added new products he tried them out on his own brood...