Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sprint between the fat figure of U.S. plenty and the gaunt shape of world hunger still seemed a losing race. Despite record wheat exports-3,374,000 tons from Jan. 1 to May 10-on May 10 the U.S. was nearly 1,000,000 tons behind its colossal goal: 6,000,000 tons before June 30. For the first ten days of May the U.S. had paced itself for 333,000 tons, only 105,000 tons had actually sailed from U.S. ports. And never before had the per capita food consumption of U.S. civilians been higher: 14% above prewar years...
...President's request, Food Ambassador Hoover would continue his famine mission by a trip to South America to spur contributions there. But the hope of the world was still the vast U.S. granary. Would the U.S. keep its promise to win the race...
...outdone in this race for civic glory, the firemen went and renamed another thoroughfare: "Street in Commemoration of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Fire Brigade...
Atlanta, before the war, was headquarters for a profitable national business in hocus-pocus for race-prejudiced joiners: the Ku Klux Klan. Since the war, it has been no secret in Georgia that the Klan was trying to come back in a big way. In the past eight months there have been cross-burnings atop Stone Mountain. But secrecy is a part of the Klan's appeal-and the Kluxers kept their affairs to themselves...
...first prize. On the record, Assault was the best of 1946's three-year-olds, but his Preakness winning time (2:01 2/5) was the slowest in 13 years. Ten years before, Assault's daddy, Bold Venture, won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness-and never another race...