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...international teams from that year through 1927, and lost only one match-to England, in 1914. A member of the famed Big Four (others: Harry Payne Whitney, Larry and Monty Waterbury), he was a nine-goal man for nine years, and for twelve years his handicap was ten (tops...
...Rounders, Texas Oilman Emerson F. Woodward's up-&-coming Irish-bred colt: the $25,000 Arlington Handicap; defeating (by three and a half lengths) turfdom's leading money winner, Whirlaway, who collected a mere $4,000 in second money; before a closing-day crowd of 30,000 at Chicago's Arlington Park. (Fortnight ago Rounders placed second in the $50,000 Massachusetts Handicap, when Whirlaway upped his earnings to $454,336 to eclipse Seabiscuit as the biggest money winner in horse-racing history...
...Army's fault as OPM's. Old-fashioned military purchasing methods were geared to buy a few tin hats from a few munitions makers, not to build a total-war arsenal from a whole economy converted to war. And both OPM and Army were under a great handicap: nobody knew how many weapons the U.S. would need or where it would get the raw materials to build them, or even what wars the U.S. was going to fight-if any. The U.S. had no war management, either military or civilian...
...past three years a chestnut colt with a long blond tail has earned twice as much money as the President of the U.S. Last week, in winning the $50,000 Massachusetts Handicap at Suffolk Downs, Warren Wright's Whirlaway upped his lifetime earnings to $454,336 and eclipsed Charles Howard's Seabiscuit as the biggest money winner in the history of horse racing. Owner Wright turns 10% of Whirlaway's earnings into war bonds...
...their furnaces. But now the U.S. needs scrap and needs it badly because there are not enough 1) open-hearth furnaces to produce steel at the slower rate required when higher percentages of pig iron are used, 2) blast furnaces to make pig for all the steel. The furnace handicap will be overcome if the sponge-iron process can 'be perfected, since sponge-iron plants can be built more quickly and cheaply than new blast furnaces, are cheaper to operate...