Word: jamaica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the still undeveloped sites will rate as service stations for naval, air and land forces. Thus Bermuda and Jamaica are to be major service stations (naval and air); Antigua and St. Lucia are to be secondary ones (for air). Three of the links in the chain will be much more than service stations. Trinidad, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone will be the key positions...
...February. At 8-to-1 were Texan Robert Kleberg's Dispose, big horse of Florida's winter season, and J. Frederick Byers' Robert Morris, a 200-to-1 shot in the winter books-before he outran half a dozen older horses in the Excelsior Handicap at Jamaica last fortnight...
Still, the horseshoe of roses may well go to a longshot-such as Blue Pair, Little Beans or Market Wise, who was an unlikely starter until he beat King Cole, the East's leading candidate, in the Wood Memorial at Jamaica last week. Market Wise's owner, a Long Island businessman named Louis Tufano, took part of the $16.000 he won, hired a private car, shipped his Cinderella horse to Churchill Downs...
...this summer. Thoroughbreds are not likely to be drafted. Most trainers are too old and jockeys too small to serve in the Army. The five-day week will encourage workers with bulging pay envelopes to get acquainted with the "sport of kings." Last week at New York's Jamaica race track, in suburban Long Island, fans set a world's record for pari-mutuel bets. In the first seven days of its spring meeting, $5,786,152 was wagered-an average...
...little lizards and mice, not only with words but with his own drawings, which are artistic works of science. His interest in ecology-the study of the relation, always complex, between each animal and its environment-makes his book not merely a description of loathly and lovely beastlings from Jamaica and Yucatan but a picture of a darker and grander organism of which they are parts...