Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Willie Hartack started our Man o' War granddaughter, Bright Fate, to fame, broke her maiden and then the track record for one and one-sixteenth miles at Charles Town in 1954 after other jockeys had failed to bring her home in the money...
...that first-quarter production may actually fall some 5,000,000 tons short of consumption, even with the big drop in steel use in Detroit. January auto sales were the most disappointing since 1954 with only 381,000 new cars delivered-down 22.6% from December. Ford Motor Co., after record 1957 sales of $5.8 billion (with profits of $282 million), was off an estimated 30%; Chrysler Corp., with record 1957 sales of $3.5 billion (and profits of $120 million), tumbled an even sharper 34%, dropping back to 14% of the market. General Motors' sales dropped only...
...soft goods, they were still so strong that the U.S. Commerce Department reported January sales ahead of a year ago. All told, said Commerce, U.S. retailers did $15.5 billion worth of business last month to start off 1958 with the greatest selling spree in history and a new record 5.4% better than last year's peak...
...time Paul was ten, he had developed into so thrifty a lad that he went without lunch for months; instead, he saved the $1.75 a week that he got to buy his school lunch, ate a bigger dinner at home. His diary of the time is a record of gleeful acquisitiveness: "Fine day. Papa gave me a quarter to put in my purse"; "Fine day. Mama gave me ten cents...
...National Indignity." The Cat kept her appointments with Allied agents; at the close of a conversation, Bleicher would usually appear and arrest the victim. She watched her friends being carried away to prison, torture and death without emotion-though it is on record that she once said "Pardon" to a woman friend whom she had just betrayed. The Cat continued her broadcasts to London and because of phony messages sent in her name, the British failed to trap the warships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen; and it was she who informed the Nazis of the approaching British Commando raid...