Word: enghien
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fanfaron IV was snatched from the butcher, carefully trained as a steeplechaser. He got his first big chance in the Prix des Landes at Enghien, Belgium last spring. He won. All season long, Fanfaron IV ran scared. In eight races he finished first four times, second twice. He earned 4,000,000 francs. Last week in the Prix Georges Brinquant at Auteuil, Fanfaron won once more and put another 2,000-000 francs in his owner's pocket...
...million) for the five-year reconstruction job. The government would only promise 365 million francs a year, so Cornu turned fund-raiser himself. Soon the money was pouring in. Movie stars raised 30 million raffling off cars at a Paris auto show, the state-run casino at suburban Enghien signed up for 30 million a year, the French National Lottery promised another 400 million a year. From all over France donations came in from benefit dances, music festivals, theater performances and house-to-house canvases. Everybody contributed, from the Bank of France (10 million francs) to retiring U.S. Ambassador David...
...French government, weighed down with a record budget, has taken no steps to appropriate funds. So far, no U.S. millionaire has volunteered to go to the rescue. The most generous contribution toward the palace's rehabilitation to date: $600,000 from the state-controlled gambling casino at nearby Enghien...