Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, while Hialeah was going full blast, a third track, Gulfstream Park, opened at seaside Hollywood, 15 miles north of downtown Miami. Its owner, wee-mustached, dimpled Jack Horning, 28-year-old heir to a Pittsburgh steel fortune, had never intended to own a racetrack. A contractor by trade, he had seen only three horse races in his life when he was hired by Promoter Joe Smoot last winter to build a racing plant on 190 acres of marshland...
...Reproduced by permission of the copyright owner, Chappell...
Filed for probate in Manhattan was the will of the late, 71-year-old Colonel Jacob Ruppert, multimillionaire brewer, bachelor, owner of the World Champion New York Yankees. It disclosed that he had left all but $150,000 of his $40,000,000 fortune amassed in beer, baseball and real estate in trust for three women. Nieces Helen Silleck Holleran and Ruth Silleck Maguire each got one-third of the estate. To onetime bit-playing Actress Helen Winthrope Weyant, 37, "a very old friend," went the other third, and $300,000 in cash. To make sure that the Yankees would...
...Criminal is little better than a narrative stencil, Di rector Busby Berkeley and his cast gave the picture enough vigor, detail and pace to make it first-rate entertainment. Good sequence : Johnnie and the Dead End kids going swimming in an irrigation tank, and getting trapped when the owner starts let ting out the water...
...their company's assets. Last week, with Guaranty voting; 71% of the stock, 73% of the stockholders approved. When the burial is completed, Alleghany will be directly over the C. & O holding a 25% interest in that valuable property. Robert Young's group, meanwhile. remains the largest owner of Alleghany-but Guaranty will remain in control as long as Alleghany's bonds are in default...