Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fret over when Kentucky Derby hopefuls went to the post in both Florida and New York. Artfully steered by Champion Jockey Willie Hartack, Calumet Farm's Tim Tarn worked his way between horses to catch lightly favored Lincoln Road and win Gulfstream's Florida Derby by half a length. At Jamaica, Elkcam Stable's Hubcap just stole the Swift Stakes from Warner Stable's Levelation by a dirty nose...
...asks him to take over the boat. After a while, he does. And yet, is Gable really wrong? Is Lancaster really right? Fortunately, the moviegoer gets something more interesting to think about from time to time-mostly some good sea fights. Otherwise, it's damn the torpedoes, half speed ahead...
...grow as fast as expected. In Europe, the Middle East's biggest oil market, oil consumption will climb only 4% or 5% this year instead of the forecast 6½%. At home, the U.S. recession will cut the increase in oil consumption to 2%-less than half of what oil companies expected for 1958. To pinch oilmen even more, natural gas, which accounts for more than 25% of the U.S. power supply, is growing increasingly popular as a fuel, cuts deeply into oil's traditional markets...
...producers, who export less and are not quite so worried about Russian competition, have not retrenched as much as Aluminium. Reynolds is operating at 95% of capacity, and expects to add 112,500 tons additional capacity this year. Kaiser, running at 90%, recently brought in half of its new 145,000-ton Ravenswood plant, has deferred inauguration of the other half. Alcoa has postponed ail of its expansion plans, dropped its operating rate to 75%, "barely enough to keep the pipeline filled...
...identifying such familiar arctic objects as a walrus tooth and a harpoon head, a task Freuchen found far simpler than naming his half-Eskimo children: Mequsaq Avataq Igimaqssusuktoranguapaluk and Piplauk Jette Tukuminguaq Kasaluk Palika Hager...