Word: going
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emotional Japanese, St. Francis' arm was something more than a reminder. Cried one white-haired man in Nagasaki, a Japanese Catholic center, as he stood, rosary in hand, to watch the procession go by: "We have seen the second coming of St. Francis Xavier...
Back in 1929, the twelve cars that were running at the finish of Indianapolis' famed 500-mile Memorial Day race were powered by eight-cylinder engines. But the engineering specialists who design racing autos reasoned that with fewer moving parts, fewer things could go wrong with an engine. Last week, the twelve cars that finished the furious grind at Indianapolis-at speeds up to a record-breaking 121 m.p.h.-were all four-cylinder jobs...
...ruddy-faced owner hotfooted it from the pits to the victory cage, dabbing at his eyes with a handkerchief. "I feel wonderful," he said, with the tears still coming. He had narrowly missed seeing his three entries take first, second and fourth place; with only eight laps to go, one of Moore's cars had to drop out with a broken magneto strap. But by taking first and third, Moore won $65,855 in prizes, split (6s%-35%) with his drivers...
...engines that go into Moore's cars are the same (Offenhausers made by the Meyer & Drake Engineering Corp.) that are used in most other racing cars. But Master Mechanic Moore does not use them the way they come from the factory. He pulls down each engine to the last nut & bolt, polishes intake and exhaust valves, magnafluxes each part to see if any hidden defects exist. He buys the chassis, too, adding his own refinements in design...
Today the theater still has a large kitchen and a farm, but 90% of the admissions come in silver and greenbacks. Says Porterfield: "If another depression comes along, we'll just go back to taking beans and 'taters for admissions...