Word: lookout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elevators, farmers can hold off for better prices from middlemen, and Brazil will have to import less wheat. Another joint company has set up four model hog farms in São Paulo State, where farmers can get the word on scientific breeding and feeding. Local packers on the lookout for better meat have been persuaded to invest heavily in this outfit...
Today, on the side of the hill that was Selkirk's lookout is a bronze tablet, put up in his memory by the captain and officers of a British ship which visited the island in 1868. Hard by the beach where Crusoe found Friday is now a fishing village, San Juan Bautista. In it live most of the 560 Juan Fernándians. Sixty live on the smaller island of Más-a-Fuera, 90 miles farther out. Santa Clara, third of the group, is uninhabited...
Then Jockey Al Snider, Citation's rider, went fishing off the Florida Keys and was drowned. Ben was on the lookout for a jockey to ride his wonder horse in the Derby. This time it was Eddie Arcaro who made the phone call. Al Snider had been one of Arcaro's best friends; his widow got a share of Eddie's Derby winnings...
Warned to be on the lookout for a "Herbert R. Gross," one Square bookstore gave a description of the crook last Friday when he presented an authorization using the false name. "Gross," who is presumed to be a student, apparently sensed a trap and left the store before he could be apprehended...
...appeal to Dean Leighton's office last week, the company asked for help in protecting the pay stations in the Yard, and threatened to remove the offended machines if present practices continue. Although Yard cops are always on the lookout, the Dean explained that Freshmen have been getting away with far too many "cut-rate" calls...