Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horse, a four-year-old chestnut filly, Frenchy Pinon built a hunch into a six-figure bank account in 1944. He won the $15,000 Hawthorne Handicap, the $25,000 Vanity Handicap, topped off the season with a $61,425 check from the Hollywood Gold Cup, last big race of the year...
...none too fashionable: Bow To Me, her sire, had already been shunted off to Cuba as a has-been. But her paternal grandsire was the great French racer Epinard (spinach), for whom French-born Pinon had high regard. He took the plunge, led away Happy Issue from a claiming race...
Locked in a tie for second place are Lowell House and Company C, while Adams House and H-I round out the first division. In the individual scoring race, Baker of Standish Hall, tops the list with 40 points scored, closely followed by Jones and Hall of Company C, with 39 and 37 notched respectively...
...citation did not mention Major Bong's score-36-and if it had, the figure would have been out of date. On the day the citation was made public. Bong went out over Leyte in his Lockheed and bagged two more. In the U.S. ace race he was four ahead of the next contender, the Navy's 34-year-old Commander David McCampbell, who was out of the contest for awhile-called home to show other Navymen...
...country to raise airfields." Sverdrup had once built an airfield on New Guinea in six days, five hours, 10 minutes. That was impossible on Leyte. But his ingenious engineers cut corners where they could. One airstrip was complete except for 120 feet, under water. They got a plane to race its props and blow off the water, dried the ground with a flamethrower, then hastily put down a hard surface...