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...week, before the biggest (130,000) crowd that any U.S. sport event brings together, the two drivers slid into the cockpits of Lou Moore's identical light-blue racers. The field of 30 speedsters, their temperamental engines sucking in blends of gas and alcohol, snarled through the first lap at 122 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: EZY Did It | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...loss of millions of dollars. Furthermore, British Commonwealth operators, determined to hang on to the U.S. market, would undoubtedly cut their prices below CCC's. U.S. wool-growers still clamored for Government support, which meant that more & more domestic wool would be dumped into the Government's lap, would have to be resold somehow, somewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Baa, Baa, Black Sheep | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...Fort Worth last week, he tied for third, finishing four strokes behind Winner Ben Hogan. His first lap on the U.S. golf circuit had already netted him $3,537 in prizes. South Africa's Bobby Locke was obviously a man to reckon with for next month's grand prize-the U.S. Open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: African Wonder | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...first lap of final exams drew to a close yesterday, Phillips Brooks House's Book Drive had only achieved 25 percent of its quota of 250 used texts, Alfred Pugliese '47, PBH librarian, reported last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Donations to PBH Book Drive Reach Quarter of Quota | 5/22/1947 | See Source »

That wasn't all. John also set up urns and a fancy granite stone which was inscribed: "Kindly Keep Off the Memorial." Then he surrounded the whole business with a four-foot marble wall-he didn't want strangers' children on his lap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KANSAS: You Can Take It with You | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

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