Word: rans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called her two servants, a smiling, white-jacketed No. 1 boy and a greying, gold-toothed amah. "Here," she explained, "are Lao Wu and Amah. Lao Wu has been in the family for 45 years, Amah for 34. What would they do if we ran away and left them...
Fanny Blankers-Koen, blonde Dutch housewife who has four Olympic gold medals and two kids of her own, stepped off the plane in New York, sought out a track where she could work the kinks out of her legs (she ran an all-star field into the ground at Los Angeles later in the week), got an unexpected welcome on her first trip to the U.S. from a swarm of eager little helpers at the track...
...public levy problem, however, is not so easily solved. Since 1918, the cities and towns through which the El ran absorbed the yearly deficit. But these lesses had been reasonable; the towns could pay them off without too much difficulty. Now the towns cannot cover the MTA excess expenses without raising their own property tax rates. Consequently, they have rebelled against the old system...
...stock. Since 1918, the dividends on this stock had been paid on the gross profits before any of the surplus had been plowed back into improvements for the transit system; thus, the stock was for private investors highly profitable and secure. Inasmuch as a politically appointed board of trustees ran the company, these stocks became during the Curley regime a form of party patronge. So the State elimination of these dividends cut out a large portion of the system's yearly operating expenses...
Died. Sam Breadon, 72, longtime president of the St. Louis Cardinals, who ran his original $200 investment to some $3,000,000 by the time he sold his stock in 1947 after 30 years; of cancer; in St. Louis. Breadon (and onetime associate Branch Rickey) built up the far-flung Cardinal chain system (at one time they owned 16 farm teams, had working agreements with twelve others), which paid off handsomely: Breadon's high-flying Cardinals won nine National League pennants, six World Series, earned more than $8,000,000. Breadon, who said that he had never seen...