Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jampacked Churchill Downs last week, everyone, from the 50? standing-room to the $99 boxes, agreed with Owner Woodward that Johnstown was a great horse. Taking the lead away from speedy little El Chico (winter-book favorite) at the first quarter, long-striding Johnstown streaked farther away from the field at every pole, breezed under the wire in a common gallop, with ears cocked as if wondering what had happened to the rest of the gang. Six lengths behind was W. L. Brann's Challedon, one length in front of Jock Whitney's Heather Broom. El Chico...
...down to work 21 years ago, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (founded by Act of Congress in 1915) has turned out many a valuable contribution to aircraft and engine design. Its studious scientists, working in a grotesque collection of wind tunnels and other research machinery at Langley Field, Va., can point to NACA discoveries (cowlings, wing designs, etc.) on every airplane flying today...
Last week to Langley Field went some 400 aviation experts, manufacturers and operators to see what NACA has done since the doors of the laboratories were last opened to visitors two years ago. Because this year's NACA discoveries will be flying in next year's military airplanes, only U. S. citizens were invited, their cameras were parked at the GHQ Air Force headquarters on the field and they were warned to make no sketches of charts or equipment...
...shooting. When he had mowed down Farmer Snow and Mrs. Snow, their two daughters and son-in-law-killing three of the five-Mackey was still mad. On his way to hide out in the Red River bottoms, he stopped to kill Farmer Dee Chandler, who was plowing a field...
Fighting neck and neck for Eastern Intercollegiate League supremacy, the power-ridden nines of Harvard and Dartmouth will face off in their second and final tilt of their two game series tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock on Soldiers Field...