Word: graw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GENERAL MILLS, whose sales of housewares have been slipping, sold out its small-appliance business (electric irons, mixers, etc.) to Mc-Graw Electric Co. of Elgin, 111. (Toastmaster). Last year General Mills' housewares-division sales amounted to 2% of the company's $483 million gross, but current sales are estimated at less than 1 % or under...
...Narrow Margin (RKO Radio) is the kind of lowbudget, high-quality movie that the trade calls a "sleeper." This particular sleeper accommodates some colorful passengers on a Chicago-Los Angeles train. A jut-jawed detective (Charles Mc-Graw) is escorting a gangster's sloe-eyed widow (Marie Windsor) to be the key witness in a grand jury crime probe. The detective's problem is to evade a couple of cold-blooded syndicate hoods who have rubbed out the detective's partner and are now bent on murdering the widow...
...away with the Potomac Handicap in his usual styleand set a new track record for the mile-and-a-sixteenth while he was about it. Man o' War was in his heyday that year, and so was Havre de Grace. Halfway between Philadelphia and Washington, "the Graw"* drew crowds from 100 miles or more away, north & south...
...recent years, though the clubhouse and grandstand look a little cramped and shabby compared to modern plants, the Graw has still offered good racing; in 1947 Citation ran and won the first race of his career there. But competition from Delaware Park and New Jersey's Garden State was already drawing customers away. By 1949, to keep from going deep in the red, Havre de Grace was forced to turn over some of its allotted racing days to Pimlico...
...Havre de Grace's owners sold out to agents for two other Maryland tracks: Alfred Vanderbilt's Pimlico and Morris Schapiro's Laurel Park. The new owners plan to shut down the old place, take over most of the racing days once allotted to the Graw...