Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tough league. In Oklahoma City, Ben once got hornswoggled in a match race against an Indian quarter-horse. The Indians dug a hole in the lane Ben's horse was to run in, filled it with straw and covered it with dirt. When Ben's horse hit the hole, she went sprawling and the Indians took his money. Since then Ben has been pretty thorough about inspecting tracks before a race...
Actually, a fare increase is a reasonable answer to the problem; cities like Detroit and Washington have had a two-for-a-quarter token system for five years now. One suggestion offered has been to scale the fare in proportion to the distance that a person travels. For instance, the rate on an outlying line, say from Watertown to Harvard Square, would be six cents; the intown rate on one of the main transit lines would be ten cents. Thus the maximum fare for traveling the length of the system (two outlying lines and a main line) would...
...spite of the Ford strike, new cars were rolling out of Detroit at a rate of more than 5,000,000 a year. Some new car dealers were feeling a sag in their own sales (Kaiser-Frazer Corp. this week reported a $5.8 million loss in the first quarter). They were once more offering bigger trade-in allowances than they could get for the used cars. By summer's end, some of 1949's new cars would be showing up on used-car lots, to add to the glut. Both new-and used-car dealers would probably have...
...freshman track team wound up a very successful season at New Haven Saturday by eking out a 71 1/3 to 68 2/3 victory over Yale. Firsts in the dashes by Dick Weiskopf and in the hurdle events by Charlie Durakis, sweeps in the two mile and the quarter, a first and second in the mile, and firsts in the javelin and broad jump contributed to the close...
...scored for the Crimson besides Reed were: Dave Best and John Harrigan, who figured in a three-way split for first in the high jump; Jeff Tootell, who took thirds in the discus and shot; Harvey Thayer, who took a second in the 220 and a third in the quarter. Charlie Keith and John Holbrook, scored second and third place respectively in the javelin; John Thorndyke and Cogan, took seconds in the hammer and two mile respectively, and Jon Spivak and George Kumpel took thirds in the 100 and broad jump respectively...