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Camacho gave Pagliai not only a license for pari-mutuel gambling but also a ten-year renewable concession on 180 acres of Government property 15 minutes from the heart of Mexico City. In return, Pagliai's Jockey Club de la Ciudad de Mexico, operators of the track, promised the Mexican Army ten thoroughbreds every year there is racing at the Hipódromo de las Américas...
...Presidential meeting underlined its acute need for a definitive airways policy which can become the basis for post-war settlement. The crucial issue is already posed. Will Britain and the U.S. jockey to form rival imperialisms based on air power? Or, will they unite on a common policy of Freedom of the Air as well as Freedom of the Seas...
...Colonus, a 25-to-1 shot ridden by a 17-year-old jockey: the Melbourne Cup, Australia's No. 1 horse race; finishing seven lengths ahead of Phocion and Heart's Desire, both 50-to-1 shots; at Flemington, near Melbourne, Australia. It was the widest walkaway in 70 years, the slowest race (3:33¼ for two miles) in 50 years. Instead of the usual gold cup, Colonus' owner received $650 in war bonds...
From then on Russia found herself in an advantageous position, which finally paid off in her German pact of '39. She could jockey herself between Germany's desire for protection in her rear, and England and France's need for an ally to the east of the Nazis. For a year, between the signing of the Munich pact and the German invasion of Poland, Russia could afford to burn her candle at both ends. The quick demolition of Poland, followed by the demise of France, removed Hitler's need for protection on her Western Wall, and Russo German relations became...
President Clinton D. McKinnon, who is a jockey-sized little fireball with unruly black hair and bounding energy, sighted greener pastures when the valley began to swarm with "foreigners" two years ago. Neither Okies nor retired Iowa farmers, they were youngsters who had come to work in California's war-booming aircraft industry. So McKinnon founded the Aircraft Times. Its success led him to follow it last December with the Shipyard Times...