Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half-dozen times, the morning of the race, Horse Trainer Jimmy Jones went out to test Hialeah Park's dry but spongy racing strip. Finally he decided that the best place was not along the rail, but about 15 feet out from...
...post time drew near, he told Jockey Doug Dodson to stay off the rail, and added: "If none of the other horses make any real pace, just go ahead out there in front and stay in front." The jockey did just that. He never had to use the whip. He gave the big horse his head, and in track-record time Armed (TIME, Feb. 17) ran away with the $50,000 Widener Handicap, Florida's biggest race. Next stop, after a 14-hour plane trip: California and this week's $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap...
...Little. For the Pennsy's woes, President Martin Withington Clement had a two-word explanation: "Government regulation." When rail workers were awarded an 18½? wage increase in mid-1946, it was made retroactive to Jan. 1. But ICC delayed giving the railroads a 17.6% rate increase until last December. Furthermore, said Clement, additional boosts are necessary...
Partial justification for Clement's gloom was to be found in preliminary rail earnings reports for January. They showed freight revenues up a whopping 21.2% over 1946; but a drop of 39.5% in passenger revenues pulled the roads' net increase down to an unimpressive 6.5%. Obviously, the industry's problem was to jack up passenger revenues...
...Near Maxville, Fla., the Seaboard Air Line Railroad's northbound Orange Blossom Special hit a split rail with a speed that sent six sleepers and the diner skidding on their streamlined sides. Reason: bad maintenance. Injured...