Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then there was Perpetual, owned and driven by foxy Doc Parshall, the Earl Sande of the sulky circuit. Perpetual, no great shakes as a two-year-old, had won three big stake races this summer (the Matron, the National and the Historic). But Doc's colt had recently come down with a fever, was seen stepping around the track wearing a jowl strap only an hour before the Big Race...
Only events in which mainland swimmers sparkled were the backstroke (at which Chicago's Adolph Kiefer has no peer) and the diving championships. Kiefer won the backstroke sprint crown (100 meters) for the seventh time. Ohio State's Earl Clark, national collegiate champion, won both the high and low diving titles...
...overworked question of what-holds-back-defense-production, Alvin Earl Dodd, American Management Association president, last week gave a perspicacious answer. His answer: too many of 1941's executives and workers got their training in the Backward Thirties when the brakes were on initiative, the emphasis on managerial conservatism. But now the loudest cry is for dynamic expansion, more output, more speed. For many a man-at-the-wheel this hairpin turn has been too much; now time is lost while they try to regain the road...
After taking a Moral Science Tripos at Cambridge University, Wing Commander Straight turned professional automobile racer, won many contests at England's famed Brooklands speedway, became a director of 21 British aviation companies, married sightly Lady Daphne Finch-Hatton, daughter of the 14th Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham, and in 1936 became a British subject...
First member of British royalty to fly the Atlantic in a bomber, H.R.H. Prince George Edward Alexander Edmund, Duke of Kent, 38, the youngest brother of King George VI, landed in Ottawa last week, where he was welcomed by the Earl of Athlone after a nine-hour hop in a four-engined, American-built Consolidated B-24 Liberator. Purpose: a six-week coast-to-coast tour inspecting the progress of the monster British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. In the R.A.F., the Duke holds the rank of Air Commodore on the staff of the Inspector General...