Word: chunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...routine job, a mock invasion of South Boston by the U.S. Marines. As he watched them land on a beach, Moe Fineberg told a friendly Globe rival, "That ought to make a good picture." Seconds later, when a projectile exploded in a nearby mortar, a flying chunk of metal hit Photographer Fineberg in the head and killed...
...over whom Harry's barman gloomed were outnumbered this year by half a million Britons, 900,000 Belgians, 400,000 Swiss, 150,000 Scandinavians and 90,000 Spaniards. The 200,000 from the U.S., however, had left some $78 million behind to provide France with her biggest single chunk of hard currency outside the Marshall Plan. The 1949 American tourists were younger, poorer and more serious-minded than before, but Paris' barmen happily reported that they still outdrank everyone else, with the Swedes and Britons running second and third. And just to prove that there were still...
This week, the syndicate faced the more realistic prospect of dividing up something less than $7,000, before taxes. Biggest chunk of cash came from the sale of a Chrysler sedan for $2,300. An auction of a large part of the loot (a living room suite, three rugs, a TV set, "$1,000 worth" of books, bedroom furniture, a diamond ring, wrist watch and assorted luggage), all of which was valued at nearly $9,000, brought in about $3,000. The syndicate would also be well-clad for a while: a Chicago tailoring firm had agreed to make...
...everywhere, the trend was toward lower purses. Last week, Saratoga announced a cut in its minimum purses from $3,000 to $2,500. At Santa Anita, which last winter managed three $100,000 races in a single meeting, horsemen were complaining about giving away so much money in one chunk, instead of spreading it around. Cheap horses, they argued, eat as much hay and oats as stakes winners...
...State of New Mexico went to Federal Court last week to stop the U.S. Government from grabbing any more of its land. This time it was the U.S. Army which wanted full title to a chunk of New Mexico almost as big as New Jersey - the 7,200-square-mile White Sands Proving Ground area for guided missiles...