Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists. They were all afraid to run. They thought Quirino would have them assassinated. So they all stayed in their foxholes and told me to take my Tommy gun and go out and fight for them." Privately, for all his public charges, Recto concedes that the Nationalists had to pick Magsaysay...
...last week's Cleveland venture, George Harvey, an ex-racer, was hoping to rekindle some of the excitement of those gone days. But as he looked at the puzzled faces in the small nightly crowds, he shook his head doubtfully and saw little hope that his patrons would pick up some of the germs that had infected him long ago. For bike racing, he says, "is a disease. Once it's got you, nothing stops you." He has grand plans for future races in Chicago, St. Louis and New York, but there is a lot of pedaling ahead...
...homebred American game of basketball, in fact, owes most of is present gym-packing, crowd-drawing prominence to the popularity of its hot-handed pros. In turn, the pros acknowledge their debt to a roly-poly Russian immigrant named Maurice Podoloff, 66, who barely knew the difference between a pick-off play and a picket fence when he became president of the N.B.A. In ten years Podoloff has led the league out of virtual pauperhood into the promised land of big crowds and bigger bank accounts. He hits the road as often as any of the players...
...Jerkens insists that he harbors no training secrets. Says he: "All you can do is do your best for a horse: mix olive oil in their mash, pick greens for them, and hope for the best. If they're sore, you tub them and ice them. Lots of good trainers just don't get the breaks, but some years you get lucky." Allen Jerkens has been getting so lucky so often that many horsemen now make him a factor in their handicapping-along with a horse's bloodlines, its past performances and its jockey...
...relatively small fee, while railroads must pay steep taxes and maintenance for every mile of rail. New Jersey alone collects an average $9,511 annually for every mile of line; the 13 railroads serving New Jersey pay $1.67 in state taxes for every $1 worth of business they pick up in the state. On top of that, railroadmen point to other special taxes, e.g., a federal railroad retirement tax, figured at of employee earnings v. only 2% for other industries, plus a 3% tax on freight shipments during World War II to discourage shipping on the overloaded roads, but never...