Word: races
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Naturally the opposite view was taken by Bolivian officials at La Paz, where Minister of Public Works Zacarias Benavides solemnly declared "Communists are responsible for this outbreak. They have incited the Indians to establish the supremacy of their race and obtain the ownership of all land...
...entrants in the Dole Prize flight to Honolulu lost. Came criticism that greediness for the $25,000 prize and the $10,000 second prize was taking men into the air with inefficient planes. Airmen answered that all tests were under U. S. Department of Commerce supervision. Flyers in the race signed a last minute agreement to delay the start four days, to give opportunity for minuter mechanical overhauling, stricter sifting of entrants' abilities...
...Angeles Chapter of the National Aeronautic Association: "Clarke never signed an agreement to postpone his start." The gasoline gauge rose. Flyers and officials crowded around. The plane was wheeled to the runway. Mr. Clarke leaned out, called: "As long as I can't see the start of this race I'll be at the other end to see the finish!" Into the plane jumped Mr. Babb, hatless in business clothes. The motor hummed; the plane took off. A Dole official told the crowd Mr. Clarke had not qualified, had not a chance to win the prize if he made...
...Guggenheim memorial foundation provides $2,500 for 50 Americans each twelve month, no restrictions as to subject or place, both sexes, married or single, no race or color barriers...
Touts, jockeys, trainers with the universal sentimentality of sporting characters, enjoy the supposition that race horses possess retentive memories. They would prefer to suppose that Dice, as he watched blood oozing out of his nostrils, preserved in his mind a blurred panorama of fields and stables, race tracks and boxcars. Outlined still in the confusion of the past would be the five spring afternoons of his five races; victories all, in which he won $43,000 for owners who had bought him for less than a quarter of that amount, valued him at more than twice that amount. There would...