Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first dash for the rail at Pimlico's Preakness last week, Kentucky Derby Winner Dark Star shot into the lead. Dark Star had beaten Alfred Vanderbilt's Native Dancer in the Derby by following a simple script: get in front, out of trouble, and stay in front. But this time the Dancer, Jockey Guerin up, was not playing his part of the Derby script. Instead of getting banged early and boxed later, as he had in the Derby, Jockey Guerin kept the smooth-moving grey colt close on the pace, well out of trouble...
...break from the gate, a brown colt cut in fast from an outside post position, making a strong bid for the rail and the early lead. It was Dark Star, 25-1. As the horses swept past the grandstand for the first time, it was Dark Star in front, with Correspondent a close second...
...Dancer was fourth, 2^ lengths behind, just turning into the stretch along the rail...
...stock market, which has been as unsteady as a hog on ice, last week again fell hard. The Dow-Jones industrial average dropped five points to 270.73, a low point for the year. Down with it went the rail and utility averages. Investors sold not only because they were worried over economic adjustments which peace in Korea might bring; they also began to jitter-with little cause-that the vast outpourings of civilian goods would soon pile up big surpluses and bring cutbacks in production...
When he was in Germany, Lubar was able to rent an ancient mansion on the Rhine, overlooking both the river and the four tracks of the main rail line under his bedroom window. The chief disadvantage was the lack of a private entrance. The house was quiet when the lease had been signed, and Lubar assumed that only the landlord and his wife lived on the top floor. But when he moved in, the house suddenly teemed with the landlord's six children, running up & down the stairs and through the apartment vestibule. Because of the bleakness...