Word: knockdown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lady who sells face powder and buys horseflesh, Elizabeth Arden Graham, money is no object. She paid $34,000 for Colony Boy, $26,000 for Star Pilot, and with the help of her topflight trainer became racing's biggest pursewinner ($589,170) last year. Somehow, a horse named Knockdown, costing only $2,000, sneaked into her lush stables. Last week, in the richest race for three-year-olds ever run, the poor relation led all the way, and romped home the winner in the $100,000 Santa Anita Derby...
Other Arden horses to watch are Harvey's Pal ("The play Harvey was such a good show"), Blue Gem ("Oh, he's so beautiful; he has eyes of blue") and the $46,000 yearling Colony Boy, named for Manhattan's famed Colony Restaurant. Still another is Knockdown, which placed second in last week's Arlington Futurity...
Next to winning, John J. McGraw liked feuding. During his 30 years as manager, his rough, tough, smart New York Giants won ten National League pennants and seldom finished out of the first-division money. Knockdown, drag-out feuds brightened most of those 30 years...
...ambitious manufacturer who can use 5,052,177 sq. ft. of floor space and does not mind operating an unhandily located plant should apply to the Defense Plant Corp. The chances are that DPC will be glad to sell its $100-million plant at Willow Run, Mich., at a knockdown price...
...bbls.) than ten tankers could lug to Alaska. This week Congressional leaders learned that General Somervell was going to abandon the field, charge the whole business off to the "waste of war." Next step: Canada will have a chance to bid in the plant at a knockdown price. If Canada refuses it, Canol will be put on the block...