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Drift Wide. Then Novice McKenley displayed his inexperience in another payoff art of indoor running. Instead of drifting out and driving Fox wide on the boards, he hugged the rail and allowed Fox to slip by the easy way. Fox won and McKenley finished a weary fourth. But he had leaned into the turns perfectly, and Coach Gibson was satisfied...
...Social Crediters tried to get started on their currency reform plans, which were to pay off $25-a-month government "dividends" to all adults. In 1937 the Dominion government stepped in, ruled that a province had no right to tamper with the banking system, and the Social Credit payoff never got out of the dream stage. When Bill Aberhart died in 1943, Social Credit's House membership had dropped...
...Northern commanders who followed Little Mac fare better, but none of them (Burnside, Hooker, Meade) had the considered aggressiveness that was needed when the battle was the payoff. Even when he outsmarted Lee, "Fighting Joe" Hooker (a nickname he didn't earn and didn't relish) failed to follow up effectively because he lacked Lee's (and Grant...
...atomic power plant. Before summer, a task force will test late-model atomic bombs at the atoll of Eniwetok, the AEC's proving ground. Scientists have been quoting 1955 as the target time for cheap atomic-generated electric power. Three years of AEC work are nearing the payoff...
...partners (among them: Continental Airlines' President Robert Six; Howard Hughes's ubiquitous agent, Johnny Meyer; and General Aniline & Film's Chairman Jack Frye) had risked $75,000 on a tip Meyer got from a geologist who had previously tipped Meyer and Frank Sinatra to another payoff site (Sinatra's "Crooner No. i" well in Wyoming...