Word: knockdown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enacted when Italians began deserting the races. Many started betting among themselves. Without revenues from track betting and gate receipts, the government-controlled agency that puts up prize money announced that it could no longer guarantee purses. Some owners were offering horses to slaughterhouses at knockdown prices. The tracks were forced to shut down and more than 50,000 trainers, jockeys, grooms and stableboys were thrown out of work, might soon become eligible for Winter Help...
...thousands more projects. Milwaukee has a Rentit store that will rent out a big power saw ($35 a week) or a small electric drill ($10 a week). California's Glasspar Co., which started off with $1,000 capital in 1950, is up to $585,000 annual sales selling knockdown Fiberglas sports cars for $1,466.50, without engine. Michigan's Chris-Craft Corp. has 21 different do-it-yourself boat kits ranging from a $49 pram to a 21-ft., $814 express cruiser, now does 25% of its business in the do-it-yourself market...
...interview was opened by Henderson (one of the original Senior Fellows) with one of his knockdown statements...
...Maryland's Millard Tydings, said that his charges were a "fraud," McCarthy shifted his course, chased Tydings through Maryland, got questionable credit for Tydings' defeat. When another Senate subcommittee said that the tactics used against Tydings were "despicable," McCarthy brushed it aside. Whenever anyone scored a knockdown, McCarthy took a bow. His deepest: 1) when Foreign Service Officer John Service was fired, after McCarthy had called him "pro-Soviet"; 2) when Owen Lattimore was indicted on a charge of perjury, after McCarthy had called him a "top Russian agent...
...battle for control of the New York Central turned into a standup, knockdown fight last week. Squared away on one side was suave, ambitious Robert R. Young, 57, whose mastery of high finance and knowledge of corporate infighting won him control of the $65 million Alleghany Corp. in 1941. Young boldly demanded to be named chairman of the Central's board because he owned 100,200 of its shares (which he claimed was the largest individual holding) and because he had the support of the 100.000 shares owned by his associate. Allan P. Kirby, and could also vote...