Word: hialeah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...collection of garbage− Miami's method of counting noses −was getting heavier every week. . . . The season broke early and big. The race track at Hialeah is taking in more than $600,000 a day− one day it made a record by passing $1,000,000-and the dog tracks do as much as $100,000 apiece at night. . . . Real estate is changing hands at million-dollar tunes. . . . The beaches are deep in vacation humanity, the nightclubs are roaring in spite of a midnight curfew on drinks,* and Midas has moved back to Miami...
...this stinking state of affairs, Jersey Citizens had, as usual, to thank their perennial mayor, Frank ("I am the Law") Hague. Boss Hague did not have to hold his nose; vacationing in Florida, his only problem was to get to Hialeah in time for the first race. Boss Hague left the worrying to a trusted lieutenant, one Michael A. Scatuorchio, who has grown fat and rich collecting Jersey City's garbage for the last 24 years...
Disturbed by the ominous closing of race tracks elsewhere (e.g., Havre de Grace, Hialeah, Tropical Park) because of travel restrictions, Long Island's Jamaica track prepared for a modest opening last week. Parking lots were closed, special trains banned. But railbirds would not be downed...
...things as the public sale of fireworks. So well did Dimmy succeed that an appreciative Moe Annenberg presented him with a $1,000 platinum Swiss watch so fancy and begadgeted that, said office legend, a little man popped out of it on the hour to announce race results at Hialeah...
...large field, even the smartest jockey cannot always keep a good horse from being pocketed or jostled. The 25,000 racing fans at Hialeah Park, more closely crowded than the horses, prepared for a rush-hour start-it was necks and rumps, then necks and necks. On the far turn the horses were bunched like a hand of bananas. Coming into the stretch, the first ten could have been covered with a blanket. But the favorites were too near the stem. Market Wise, the people's choice, got lost in the early shuffle...