Word: pours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Skillful propaganda, coupled with this aid, makes capital of the Chaco's misery. And the misery is real. Presidencia Roque Saenz Pena has 4.000 people on relief at $1.50 per person per year. Cosecheros (Argentina's Okies) pour in to work in the fields, but less than one-fourth of them find work. Company-store prices are double to treble the prices at ordinary stores, and the cosecheros are paid in bonos, valid only at these stores...
Natives claim that the Yankees stole their best thoroughbreds after the Battle of Nashville. In the late '20s, however, when the paper profits of the Rogers Caldwell-Luke Lea "Shares In The South" bubble began to pour into Nashville, its upper crust started ambitious plans to revive Nashville's prestige as a horse-racing center. They formed the elegant Grasslands Hunt Club, invited the East's best jumpers to take part in the "International Steeplechase." After two Internationals, Depression hit Nashville, Caldwell's banking empire came a cropper and Grasslands grew weeds...
Last week the unhappiest figures man can tabulate-the casualties of war-began to pour in from Britain and Germany as an aftermath of the Greek campaign. Even though these official figures probably could not be taken at their face value, they totted up a serious material defeat for Britain...
...Derby Day, when close to 100,000 racing fans began to pour into Louisville's Churchill Downs, the two "solid horses" were Our Boots and Porter's Cap. But by the time the bands tootled My Old Kentucky Home and eleven of the nation's classiest three-year-olds paraded to the post, Whirlaway had become the favorite. In the paddock, the picnic-like infield and the $100 boxes echoed and re-echoed the hardboots' enthusiasm: if Arcaro can keep Whirlaway from bearing out, there is no horse that can outstay...
...January 1940: "Come then: let us to the task. . . . Fill the armies, rule the air, pour out the munitions, strangle the U-boats, sweep the mines, plow the land, build the ships, guard the streets, succor the wounded, uplift the downcast, and honor the brave...