Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office over to the man he had carefully trained for the job-his nephew, Frank Hague Eggers. But Eggers lacked his uncle's sure grip, and now needed the old man's help to get reelected. Boss Hague hurried home from "retirement" at Florida's race tracks. Last week he shouted at a Democratic rally: "I really wanted to rest . . . But I stated that if conditions changed I would be back . . . And I am back. I am moving in. You knew I would never desert...
...South African Broadcasting Corp., a semi-official company under a race-conscious government, banned all recordings of Negro Actor-Singer Paul Robeson...
Bottles & Bonuses. Pepsi has cut costs (minor item: its annual art awards have been abandoned), and the company has a new eight-ounce bottle to sell for 5? at race tracks and ball parks. For home consumption, there is still the old twelve-ounce bottle (new price: 6?). Pepsi also has a new syrup pump for drugstores; at the first plunge, it plays the Pepsi jingle. To cash in on these new ideas, Mack has brought Coca-Cola Vice President Al Steele into the company as sales boss...
...closest race of the day was the mile, in which BC's Jim Taylor hit the tape inches ahead of Hamblett. Joe Lemming won the two mile run for Harvard...
...powerful transmitter operating from the officials' launch, will relay the race reports to the finish line where a group of technicians will broadest the information to crowds along the shore. Several loudspeakers, newly acquired by the Crimson Key, will assure a wide range of audibility...