Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Private Sidney ("Beau Jack") Walker, 23, Fort Benning, Ga.; his first fight since entering the Army ten weeks ago; by defeating Lightweight Champion Private Bob Montgomery of Keesler Field, Miss., in a ten-round, nontitle bout at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Gate receipts: $35,864,900 in War Bonds. The 14-month-old feud now stands at two victories for Jack, two for Montgomery...
...long as the Red Armies delayed an attack on East Prussia, the exit gate for the German Armies in the Baltic provinces stood open. But the Nazis were in dire peril. Having carved a huge salient in Lithuania, General Bagramian was closer last week to Riga than General Chernyakhovsky, at the Suwalki triangle, was to Konigsberg. Yet a breakthrough to Riga would bring in only part of the bag. Pulling the drawstring at Konigsberg might be more difficult, but it would pay off more handsomely...
Neither did the League. Only four teams played last year: the Rockford (Ill.) Peaches, South Bend Blue Sox, Racine (Wis.) Belles, Kenosha (Wis.) Comets. In a 108-game schedule, they drew some 200,000 fans and a $125,000 gate, but wound up $75,000 in the hole...
Earlier, when he snuffed out the last enemy resistance in Vilna, Chernyakovsky had won Moscow's maximum victory salute: 24 rounds from 324 guns. The Germans had desperately wanted to hold Vilna, not only to keep open the exit gate from the Baltic areas, but as a shield for East Prussia. They held out longer there under attack than anywhere else in this offensive-but only for five days. Even after the city was completely surrounded, the Germans reinforced their garrison by dropping paratroopers...
...baseball's impresarios, who mark success by gate receipts, were not downcast. For the fans, although they had known what to expect, had poured out some $80,000 to watch the exhibition. The 29,589 paid admissions to the All Star game were another indication that baseball, in the throes of its third wartime year, is doing much better than anyone had thought possible...