Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kill bees if they are confined in cages which contain plants sprayed with DDT. But that is no news to beekeepers, who have always had trouble with arsenic sprays. Dr. Wigglesworth steps delicately around the whole bee problem with an observation: ". . . beekeepers are a vociferous race. Like the bees they care for, their more lovable qualities may become obscure when they are roused-and they do not take kindly...
Less than two years ago Mrs. Lottie Wolf, wife of Detroit's wiping-rag tycoon, hired Lipiec to build up a stable, gave him his big chance. The best way to get ready-to-run horseflesh in a hurry was to buy it on the race track's huge super-market-the claiming race...
Fiercely Frequent. Claiming races make up about three-fifths of the program on the big-time circuits.* Almost 90% of all U.S. race horses run as claimers; in all claiming races owners risk having their nags bought out from under them, whether they want to sell or not. All Lipiec (or any other trainer) has to do before a race is to file a claim for a particular horse and deposit the money. After the race, he takes the horse...
...race to furnish a successor to the Douglas DC-3, workhorse of the airlines. Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. last week got off to a flying start. It pocketed an order from American Airlines for 100 of its new Model 2405, largest number of planes a single airline has ever ordered at one time. Price...
Evanescent Chance. Pondering the great events of 1945, the democrat could justly feel that once again he had been given another chance. One generation of tyrants had been overcome; there were many places on earth where a man could walk proudly, no matter his race or religion, his economic or political beliefs...