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Word: maye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breaking trials, railbirds were beginning once more to hail Johnstown as one of the great horses of all time, when he was beaten again by Challedon in the Arlington Classic at Chicago. If Johnstown recovers his lost prestige at Saratoga (and most turfmen think that he will), William Woodward may have another great champion to retire to stud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scarlet Spots | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...bred horse had ever won this 133-year-old race: the late Speculator James R. Keene's Foxhall in 1882. ?At that time the thoroughbred was just beginning to be established as a breed in England. *All thoroughbreds have the same birthday, January 1. So that foals may be dropped as soon after January 1 as possible (a mare carries her foal eleven months), the thoroughbred mating season is around the first of February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scarlet Spots | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...with AAA, the God of Drought came to his aid. Drought as well as subsidy and legal restriction reduced wheat surpluses, corn surpluses, even cotton surpluses. But three years ago Drought began to withdraw its assistance. This year Drought turned its attention (selectively) to the Northeastern States: May was bone dry and July was desert (until rains came last week) and both did plenty of damage to truck and fruit crops. But eastern Drought did not reduce the crops that are Mr. Wallace's big problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CROPS: Irony | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...continuous mill production at $6 to $8 per ton of sheet and strip, added that Steel's hard-boiled Detroit customers have now chiseled every last cent of this profit out of the steel price, admitted that the sale of the balance of 1939 auto steel going at May's cut prices (TIME, May 22) was more a pious hope than the gloomy admission it sounded like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Steelspeakers | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...drop in non-Governmental contracts, down 30% from last year. In residential building, F. W. Dodge reported awards for first 22 days of July at the rate of $112-to-$115,000,000 for the month, barely up from June's disappointing $111,000,000, off substantially from May...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Steelspeakers | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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