Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will report to Manager Bob Caploe outside Dillon Field House at 1:15 o'clock sharp to warm up for the race, which starts at 2 o'clock. Navy men competing in the meet will be excused from all military drill formations preceding the Stadium review. They will, however, take part in the parade, which enters the Stadium at 2:45 o'clock...
...Indians feel they have no voice in the Government and therefore no responsibility in the conduct of the war. They feel that they have nothing to fight for . . . and wonder whether the Atlantic Charter is only for the benefit of the white race...
...hottest pennant race in years. With less than a month to go, four teams were as good as tied for the American League lead. Detroit had the pitching, Boston the hitting. Just what kept New York and St. Louis up there, nobody knew, but it was no secret that Managers Joe McCarthy and Luke Sewell had performed small miracles with mediocre material...
...fact that Grumman workers are the fourth highest paid in the U.S. aircraft industry, and are ruggedly individualistic Long Island clamdiggers, chicken farmers, etc., no union is making any serious attempt to organize Grumman. The company has never had a strike or a slowdown. It has handled the explosive race problem just as smoothly, now has some 600 Negroes in all types of jobs. Worker morale is so good that Grumman can always strain production in emergencies. When the Navy lost an unexpected number of planes on Guadalcanal, Swirbul rallied the workers on a weekend, to make up the deficit...
...cannot praise a fugitive and cloister'd Vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary; but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat...