Word: lost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...location in Durango, Colo., Cinemactress Anne Baxter panned for gold in the Las Animas River, found none, but lost her gold wedding ring in the process...
...League pennant, Billy Southworth was quiet and thoughtful. The Boston press and the Braves management were calling him the smartest manager in baseball; he had done wonders with a team of youngsters and temperamental castoffs from other clubs. But Southworth was worried about the World Series (which the Braves lost in six games to the Cleveland Indians). Also, he wondered whether his Cinderella outfit would hold up this year...
...there was joy in Sea Girt, N.J. There, vacationing Comic Fred Allen, who last year lost a clear-cut decision in Hoo-perratings to the monster giveaway Stop the Music, said: "It's about time radio was taken away from the scavengers and given back to the entertainers...
Grocer Clarence Saunders, who made and lost a fortune in the '20s with his Piggly Wiggly stores, had hoped to make a comeback with his "Keedoozle" store (TIME, Aug. 30, 1948). The Keedoozle ("Key does all") idea was fairly complicated, but it boiled down to shoppers punching a key in labeled keyholes, then picking up their groceries at the cashier's desk where they were carried by conveyors. Boasted Saunders: "In five years there will be a thousand Keedoozles in the U.S., selling $5 billion worth of goods...
Last month, Saunders' one and only Keedoozle in Memphis went kerplunk. In eleven months Saunders had lost $170,000. Said he: "Keedoozle was too much for the average mind to comprehend." Besides attracting too few customers, it cost too much to run the calculators and conveyor belts...