Word: sec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SEC reports showed that not James Cagney but Bing Crosby was the biggest money-maker among cinemactors in 1941. His take from pictures and records: $400,640. His radio earnings were unreported...
...long. Into it the President lifted smart, big-eared, young (32) Abe Fortas, Memphis-born director of the Interior Department's power division. For Mr. Fortas it was a reward: a Yale Law School graduate, he has long and faithfully, often skillfully, served the New Deal-on AAA, SEC, PWA, as general counsel to the Bituminous Coal Commission, as bat boy on the Corcoran-Cohen team. Mr. Ickes will not find any difficulty in snuggling black-haired, esthetic-looking Mr. Fortas under his wing. He has long been in close contact with him in shaping Federal power policies...
Censored this year was SEC's annual announcement of the nation's best-salaried men & women. Not in the running were the salaries of executives in war industries (including Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Grace, who last year ranked No. 2) for fear they might give away war secrets...
...Colgate's one-eyed Al Diebolt, considered the East's fastest quarter-miler, in the biggest upset of the day, lost the 440 by a foot to an up-&-coming Georgetown sophomore named Hugh Short. Winning time: 47.2 sec...
...whip. Like the Alsab of old, he began to sweep around the field-past the Orphan, past Apache, past Shut Out, gaining with every stride of his short legs. At the wire, Alsab was a full length in front of Requested and Sun Again. His time: 1 min. 57 sec., a new record for the 52-year-old Preakness and only one-fifth of a second slower than the record for a mile and three-sixteenths on the Pimlico course...