Word: saratoga
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...vessels eased from New York Ship.'s big ways, 67 (one-third of the tonnage) have gone to the U. S. Navy, among them the battleships Idaho, Oklahoma, Colorado, and the aircraft carrier Saratoga. Its merchant ships include the slick U. S. Lines liners Manhattan and Washington. Now it is building seven ships (all naval) worth $145,000,000. One of them, the 35,000-ton, $52,794,000 battleship South Dakota, puts New York Ship, in the odd position of a manufacturer producing a single sales unit worth more than four times as much as his total assets...
...Axed out of an appropriation bill $17,000 sought by the National Park Service to begin work on converting the $2,000,000 Vanderbilt estate near Hyde Park, N. Y., into a national historic site. Recommended by the same committee was $50,000 to complete the Saratoga (N. Y.) National Historical Park...
...there were who did not know what the Biscuit had gone through. Ugly-duckling grandson of glamorous Man o' War, Seabiscuit had been sent out to race 35 times when he was only two years old. Not much as a breadwinner, he was put in a Saratoga claiming race when he was three, but no one thought he was worth $6,000. Shortly afterward, the sturdy little bay caught the eye of San Francisco Automan Charles S. Howard, who bought...
...Japan's Yeddo Bay, one afternoon, puffed two preposterous paddle frigates-Mississippi and Susquehanna-and two sloops-of-war-Plymouth and Saratoga. The former were the first steamships ever to appear in Japanese waters. As soon as they dropped anchor a great swarm of picket boats came out to shoo the smoke-breathing monsters away. A spokesman presented himself on one of these, demanding to see the commanding officer. Perry sent a warrant officer, who said that the "Lord of the Forbidden Interior" was of much too high rank to talk with a mere boatman...
...bring the race closer to the stands, President Vanderbilt last week contemplated shrinking Belmont's traditional racing strip to 1⅛ miles-the same size as the tracks at Saratoga, Hialeah, Washington Park and Arlington Park. Whether the proposed track will be ready for the 1940 spring meeting is problematical. The fate of the Widener Chute, also unpopular with railbirds because the horses start almost a mile from the stands and finish at an angle, is as yet unknown...