Word: greyhounds
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...reached by Boston's elevated system, streetcar lines and a dozen bus routes from North Shore towns. Nor are they bothered by the knowledge that they may go home $10 or $20 poorer. They are hungry dog fans. And the old cyclodrome, now named Wonderland, is a greyhound track...
...efficient manufacturing division (food-packaging machinery, milling equipment), decided to get a few machine-made orders. The first job was making plungers for ammunition hoists. Then General Mills got a prism order, ran it off in record time by perfecting a device to grind 54 prisms simultaneously. With this greyhound start, the company decided to bid on bigger & tougher things...
Animal Kingdom. In Springfield, Mo., a painted merry-go-round horse galloped loose, jumped a fence into a fair ground. In Portland, Ore., a brainy greyhound at a dog track figured things out, took a short cut across the center, caught the mechanical bunny coming head on, won retirement. In Brantford, Ont, the local dogs ate their new, metal-saving, plastic license tags. In Washington, the Office of Defense Transportation officially ruled that oysters are not farm products. In Boston, Bartender Vito Lorizio heard an impatient thumping on the bar behind him, snapped, "Take your time," turned to find...
Portland's big cut-rate grocer, Fred Meyer, took his stock of champagne down from the top shelf, sold more in midsummer than he ever had at New Year's. At night the greyhound races are packed. At the same time, one Portland bank has ten times as many savings accounts as last year...
...shattered the New Orleans to St. Louis record; next year, his Greyhound did even better: 72 hrs. 4 min. for the 1,200 miles, a record still. As he worked with his racers, he evolved a boat that could jump over logs and even small spits of land without injuring propeller or other vital organs. From this grew the Higgins Eureka, a 36-foot motorboat with a spoonbill bow, a V midship section, and a semi-tunnel protecting the propeller, so sturdy that it can rush right up on a beach without hurting itself...