Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortly after his victory over the quarter-horse in Florida, Olympia was loaded onto an airplane for California. Flashing to the front in Santa Anita's $50,000 San Felipe Stakes, Olympia was still there at the end of the seven-furlong race. But in the $100,000 Santa Anita Derby, at a mile and an eighth, he weakened in the stretch and finished second to Old Rockport, an unsung outsider. Flown back to Florida, Olympia won the $50,000 Flamingo Stakes (at a mile and an eighth), then headed for New York. A rugged, unemotional colt, Olympia seemed...
...days later, Olympia was loaded onto a plane at La Guardia Airport and flown to Louisville. With the big race only twelve days away, Kentuckians were still waiting to be shown that Olympia could carry his dizzy speed over the mile and a quarter Derby route. He also had to prove that he was a better horse than Old Rock-port-and a couple of Kentucky sleepers, Johns Joy and Ky. Colonel...
...this ever happened to the sun, saic Luyten in an understatement of the first magnitude, "people on earth would have very uncomfortably hot quarter of an hour...
During the current shakeout of the U.S. economy, worried businessmen have anxiously waited for first-quarter earnings; they would be the Scoreboard that would show how well-or how badly-business was batting. Last week, as the first big batch of earnings came out, the scoreboard looked almost as cheerful as a home run in a tight game with the bases loaded. So far, at least, business was batting well: the slump had not been...
...fact, for a good half of the 175-odd companies which had reported by early this week, there had been no recession; they turned in earnings that were even higher than in 1948's fat first quarter. A notable example was Republic Steel, first of the big steel companies to report. It had a 60% jump in its net profit, from $9.1 million to $15.2 million. Another example was General Electric Co. Despite a slump in the sale of appliances and an industrywide wave of price-cutting, G.E. boosted its first-quarter net to $26.7 million (up $1.3 million...