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Husband & Wife Programs: "Cleverly blending commercials with gossip . . . the husband and wife mate the trite with the trivial and foal the drab...
...closely as his friend and lawyer, Neil McCarthy, bid up to $135,000 for the mare Busher. McCarthy figured he had a good buy even though the 1945 Horse of the Year was a semi-cripple. Said he: "I've already been offered $50,000 for her first foal. . . . What better investment could a man make?" Most other bids looked dizzily high. Mayer had picked a good time to sell...
...fallen from 20,000,000 in 1920 to 10,000,000 in 1940) as to improve the breed. Army stallions are lent to farmers, ranchers, breeders who have proper equipment and agree not to allow the promiscuity of pasture breeding. These agents of Remount charge mare owners $10 a foal: $5 at the time of service, $5 when the mare delivers the colt. Some agents, such as C. C. Townsend near San Angelo (who has five Government stallions) accept payment in chickens, eggs, or a calf. Some of the studs are aristocrats, the get of such lords of the turf...
...hour basis, with no prices guaranteed for longer, is sick old King Coal. Exports (mostly to neutrals' deprived of coal supplies from belligerents) are competing with forward buying by worried U. S. fuel users. Hampton Roads (Va.), which has not been a big coal port for years, took foal from Pocahontas mines at the rate of 433,066 tons a week (current Pocahontas weekly production: 6-to-700,000 tons a week). Hampton Roadsters worked days, nights and Sundays loading ship holds and bunkers. Pennsylvania Railroad's Norfolk & Western Railway has been setting a new coal loading record...
...bred horse had ever won this 133-year-old race: the late Speculator James R. Keene's Foxhall in 1882. ?At that time the thoroughbred was just beginning to be established as a breed in England. *All thoroughbreds have the same birthday, January 1. So that foals may be dropped as soon after January 1 as possible (a mare carries her foal eleven months), the thoroughbred mating season is around the first of February...