Word: marylands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winter racing's sunny prospects couldn't quite cut the fog that hung over the just ended northern season. With two big-name trainers, Tom Smith and Dolly Byers, already charged with doping horses, the Maryland Racing Commission decided to check further. It consulted a new saliva test chemist. Result: four horses that won at Pimlico on Nov. 19, one that finished fifth two days earlier, were found to have been doped...
Green Christmas? Holly, unlike Christmas trees (TIME, Nov. 19) will be scarce and expensive this Christmas in most of the U.S. Reason: late spring frosts and unseasonal rains left trees in Maryland, Delaware and Virginia (which supply most eastern holly) almost devoid of berries. What little holly there is must be shipped from Texas and the Northwest...
After ephedrine, what? Benzedrine, said the Maryland Racing Commission. Evidence: the saliva test on Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark's Cosey, winner of the Fairmount Steeplechase Handicap at Pimlico. Result: Mrs. Clark's stable, top steeplechase money-winner of the year, suspended pending hearing-the third ban for doping horses handed out by the Maryland Commission this season...
...your plane Saturday and fly to your Maryland farm on Sunday. . . . Fly to Wilkes-Barre . . . Monday. Flying is easier than driving a car. ... It costs less to run a Taylorcraft than to operate an automobile. . . . CAA records prove the safety ... 8 free hours flying instruction (enough to teach you to fly)." To airmen, who blow a gasket over such talk, this seemed the silliest ad of the month. It was not much worse than avia tion ads which have rosily pictured families flying off for weekends. But aviation buffs have learned to take such things well salted. Now, the booming...
...Smith to keep the outfit going. Smith was 16 when he shipped in the Marine Corps. He was a husky, competent corporal of 22 when he heard his first shot fired in anger. That was at Pearl Harbor. Charles Henry Smith was in the color guard aboard the battleship Maryland when the enemy struck. On the double at the proper command, he manned his antiaircraft...