Word: railing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy are pumping men and millions of dollars into the Territory. At Mile 26 on the Richardson Highway near Fairbanks, the Army is rushing construction of one of the world's biggest airfields-a super super-bomber base with three-mile runways. The Army is building a spur rail line to serve the base, is pouring concrete barracks at Elmendorf Field, improving Ladd Field, repairing installations at Nome. At Adak and Attu in the Aleutians, the Navy is spending $14 million on construction...
Coincident with the Princeton football game was the threat of a general rail road strike. To keep the iron wheels rolling in this eventauality over 500 students in the University signed up as volunteer trainsmen in the emergency...
...clock the two fleet mares were ridden out onto the dusty alkali-white track. It was Texas' biggest quarter-horse, or "short," race in years: a match race between the two best short racers in the Southwest. In a box by the rail sat the three Hepler brothers of Carlsbad, N.Mex. They own Shue Fly, a true quarter horse-chunky, big-muscled, able to travel short distances (a quarter of a mile) with blinding speed. They had put up a $15,000 side bet, and most of the oldtimers went with them on Shue...
...Princess was royally sired (by Kentucky Derby winner Bold Venture). She had once flashed dizzy speed on regulation race tracks-but couldn't seem to go farther than half a mile and win. To avoid bumping or foul play in the match race of the year, a special rail had been built straight down the middle of the quarter-mile straightaway, making it a two-lane track. The race started with a roar from the crowd: "Look at 'em come...
Last week, in the Brass Rail, the backing Jimmy was getting was pretty bad. The drum was off the beat and wife Marion's piano was a little too refined. But people said Jimmy had never been better. Said one: "He's still got it . . . it's good . . . it's like...