Word: grandstanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago's five race tracks what Belmont Park is to New York City's four. In 1931, its best season, $18,000,000 was wagered in 30 days. What improvements to make after purses have been raised may be a problem. The track already has the largest grandstand in the U. S., an "eye in the sky" to photograph close finishes at the rate of 165 frames a second, an electric totalizator to flash changing pari-mutuel odds on every race, a public address system, a polo field in the infield...
...aquamarine grandstand on an ordinary racing afternoon houses more flashy celebrities than any other in the world, but the track's real "take" comes from lowly Los Angeles punters. In its first season, Santa Anita got back its whole original investment. Last season was even more profitable. Its "handle" (i. e., total of all bets made through its pari-mutuel windows) was $25,250,000. The track's gross income from admission fees and 5% of bets was $3,000,000. Currently Santa Anita is planning to up its total of purses and stakes for next winter...
...amplifier assembly will serve Roosevelt Raceway, a pretzel-shaped automobile track on the site of Roosevelt Airport No. 1. From the glass-enclosed studio on the grandstand top announcements will spray over an area half a mile square, can be stepped up, if necessary, to carry a mile. Thus will be eliminated the jumbling ordinarily caused by announcements issuing simultaneously from loudspeakers at different points on a field. Total power consumption is 20,000 watts, enough to lift a ton 7 feet every second...
...swank crowd in the grandstand had time to give one exclamatory cheer before Pedley, on his way to equaling his own Cup record of nine goals scored in a single game, put through three goals to end the crisis. In the last chukker Balding and Hughes scored for England, but by that time there were only 90 seconds left to play and the Americans saved the game...
...Paris last week the Ligue Internationale des Aviateurs named as recipient of the Harmon Trophy that super-careful, monosyllabic antithesis of a grandstand flyer. Captain Edwin C. Musick, 42, No. 1 pilot of Pan American Airways. The award includes the title of ''World's Outstanding Aviator" for 1935. Famed among flyers as perhaps the ablest flying-boat pilot on earth, but practically unknown to the U. S. public until Pan American began its methodical march across the Pacific (TIME, Dec. 2), Captain Musick has never been known to stunt a commercial plane, has had no accidents...