Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country's swankest mule race was held a fortnight ago at Greenwood, Miss. Five thousand Delta planters and cotton pickers packed the American Legion ball park for the fourth annual running of the event. The card consisted of five heats and a sweepstakes. Stubborn Delta plow mules, bedecked for superstition's sake with turkey feathers, squirrel tails and paper festoons, were mounted by Negro plowboys in overalls and gaudy silk shirts. Proceeds were earmarked for Mississippi's underprivileged preschool children...
Tomorrow will see the big Company 4 event of the week. Gene Speer, after his bachelor party of last Wednesday down at Jake Wirth's will become a benedict at the Harvard Memorial Chapel. All of course, are invited...
...plan of the Panama Canal. Rumors flew that five other pictures had been lost. Opening dates were postponed, postponed again. Half of the gala invitations sent out never reached their addresses. But last week the curtain finally went up on Mexico City's No. i art event of the season: an 83-picture retrespective exhibition of the work of Pablo Picasso, the melancholy, anarchic 62-year-old Spaniard whom many consider the greatest living artist...
Shock Absorber No. 2. Since the U.S. will in any event have to supply most of the postwar loans made for reconstruction and development, the effect of the Bank will be to make the rest of the world foot the bill for over 65% of the losses, if any. Aside from the obvious American gain under this arrangement, the world gets a profit too. For, with the Bank's guarantee, lenders can afford to lend more than they otherwise might. Thus there will be $9.1 billion of capital available for reconstruction and development by the countries which need...
Contestants may tackle the various events one at a time during the course of a week and points will be subtracted from each man's score for every second over the record for the event. At the end of the week, all five events will be totalled, and prizes will be awarded to the highest point winners...