Word: putted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seasoned turfmen smiled tolerantly. They knew Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was rich (rumor put his fortune at $20,000,000), was passionately fond of thoroughbreds, and had just bought a sizable interest in the old down-at-heels Pimlico race track outside Baltimore. But the prize he offered for his dream race was only $10,000, mere timothy to big U. S. stables.* Most racing experts did not give the Pimlico Special an outside chance to attain the prestige of a World Series or a Rose Bowl...
...Fuel Co., was less scared than most icemen. He had jumped the rest of the industry five years, had brought his company out of the drippy-wagon, pickerel-pond stage, had $25,710,324 sales and $2,972,997 net income. By the end of 1935, other icemen put Suhr at the head of newly organized National Ice Advertising, Inc., to see what could be done to rehabilitate the industry. Changes followed...
...Mine Workers of America. He was John Mitchell, and quite a boy. At 28, he was president of the union; at 32 (in 1902), he led the strike which won an eight-hour day in the coal fields. Soft-coal miners voted him out of office in 1908, eventually put John Llewellyn Lewis in John Mitchell's place. But since John Mitchell died in 1919, he rather than John Lewis has been the sainted hero of Pennsylvania miners...
...John's son had known for two months that he was to be replaced. But State Treasurer F. Clair Ross, one of the few Democratic holdovers from ex-Governor George Earle's labor-minded regime, smartly hired Richard Mitchell on the evening of John Mitchell Day, put him to work as an auditor at $1,800 a year...
...civic institution. Nancy's readers gave her $1,400 to reforest 560 acres of land in northern Michigan, gave more to replant them when the young trees were burned over. In 1932, when the Detroit Symphony was going under, Nancy's newspaper family sponsored six concerts, put the orchestra back on dry land...