Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week at Pimlico the fans got their money's worth. After the first furlong Cravat was out of the running: it was Challedon and Kayak. Challedon went into the lead; halfway down the backstretch Kayak caught him, poked his brown nose farther & farther ahead as they streaked along against a backdrop of autumn foliage. As they rounded into the homestretch, Jockey Eddie Arcaro flipped his whip and Challedon began to run like a Halloween hooligan. He inched past Kayak and won going away, a half length in front at the wire...
...report last week showed its Cinderella common stock back in the black to the tune of $10,420,445-47? a common share, and showed $5.16 operating profit per ton shipped; it is operating at close to 90%. Even more spectacular was the record of Bethlehem Steel, which makes money at a lower rate of operations than its big brother, which is now operating at full capacity, whose common earnings shot up from nothing in the 1938 quarter to $1.10 in the 1939 period, 132% better per share than Big Steel. Bethlehem's nine month earnings...
...column Nancy acknowledged the contribution, but added: "We cannot build the tower-it is too great an enterprise. What should I do with the dollar?" For answer, in her next day's mail she got more money. A contributor calling himself "Sunset Hunter" suggested penny banks to catch odd coins for the tower. Readers began to drop their pennies, nickels, dimes into old pitchers and broken cups to save them for Nancy...
...month in donations it would still take eight more years to raise enough. "Make them be business-like," he told his domestic columnist. Said Nancy: "They won't be businesslike. It's not that kind of a column." Nevertheless, she asked them to stop-and money still came...
...Crimson's victory push were Langy Burwell, Jim Lightbody, and Gene Clark, who finished closely bunched up in third, fourth and fifth places. Penn Tuttle's eighth place and Dick Wing's seventeenth clinched the case for the Mikkolamen, as Dave Simboll and Joe McLoughlin finished out of the money--twenty-second and twenty-seventh respectively...