Word: grandstand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alumni have accounted for end zone seats in the concrete stands, while more than enough mail orders have been received to sell out the steel grandstand. Varsity Club men account for remaining Harvard side pasteboards...
Impressed, Colorado's Ed Johnson, Committee chairman, sent Rickenbacker's "phenomenal and challenging" proposal to CAB, whose Chairman Joseph J. O'Connell Jr. does not impress quite so easily. He accused Rickenbacker, in effect, of staging a grandstand play. Putting Rickenbacker's newest offer into practice, said O'Connell, would mean amending the 1938 Civil Aeronautics Act to "create an absolute monopoly of north-south air transportation . . . east of the Mississippi." But Diagnostician Rickenbacker had, at any rate, called attention once more to the fact that since the war he has held the domestic monopoly...
...year-old general stood stiffly and watched the display, a hint of tears in his eyes. Overhead, in a brilliant, cloudless sky, 60 Thunderbolt fighters formed a gigantic C-L-A-Y as they roared past, and then, joined by whooshing F80 jet fighters, they swept low over the grandstand for the final salute...
...horse doesn't win this race," said white-haired Clifford Mooers with a grin, "my face will be as long as that post. I'm not a very good loser." Then Cliff Mooers climbed to his box in the stone grandstand at Keeneland track. The odds board showed that his horse, a long-barreled chestnut named Old Rockport, was 4-5 to win the $20,000 Blue Grass Stakes, his last big test race before the Kentucky Derby...
Before he opened Santa Anita 15 years ago, Strub sent aides to scout the eastern tracks and report in detail what was wrong with them. The findings: poor parking facilities, not enough elbow room in grandstands. So Doc ordered up the largest parking lot in the U.S. (215 acres of it) and an ultra-roomy grandstand. His attendants, ushers and gatemen were drilled in courtesy. Strub even handed out kindly advice to the uninitiated bettor, posted such warnings as: "Bet only what you can afford to lose, not what you hope...