Word: bugaboos
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...acre farm on Maryland's Eastern Shore where War Admiral prepped for his 1937 Derby victory. He should add 150 lbs. to his big frame while being winter-trained on mild workouts and gallops. Meanwhile bespectacled Oscar White, his trainer, isn't worried about the Futurity-Derby bugaboo and doesn't think Pavot...
...exhibitions with his father, Morris Nuttall, who used to be an intermountain lightweight champion. Morris Nuttall started training the boy in earnest when he was eleven, keeps him on a diet, sees to it that his muscles develop gradually enough to prevent any tightening up-the "boxer's bugaboo." In exhibitions with other boys-most of them his seniors by two or three years-Keith has beaten fighters more than half again his weight...
...biggest postwar bugaboos to U.S. business has been: How will the U.S. dispose of its more than $15,000,000,000 worth of Federally owned war plants? Last week, Bethlehem Steel Corp. took action to banish its own bugaboo, by purchasing all Government-built steelmaking facilities on Bethlehem property. These were mainly coke ovens and blast furnaces at Lackawanna, Bethlehem, Steelton and Sparrows Point. Shipbuilding facilities were not included...
...Bugaboo. Where will the money to underwrite the peace come from? Answers Author Chase: from the same place the money to underwrite the war came from. He takes a long look at the way the "bankrupt" Axis nations built their war machines, then points out once again what they proved-that a nation's wealth is not measured by its cash in the bank, but by its labor and production. Thus: "The idea of national bankruptcy in the modern world is a verbal bugaboo. The only way a large nation can go bankrupt today...
...week's end Senator Van Nuys still hoped to get his bill out undamaged within the next week, and the fire underwriters still had a lot more to say on their side of the case. But the States' Rights bugaboo was noticeably enfeebled. With all the new hullabaloo, final action may well be delayed until the Supreme Court-as well as Joe O'Mahoney and the Congress-gets a chance to weigh the real issues...