Word: sec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ohio State's track team: three of the six varsity relays (quarter-mile, half-mile, mile) at the 33rd annual Drake Relays, the Midwest's No. 1 track meet; setting a new meet record for the half-mile (1 min., 25.9 sec.); at Des Moines, Iowa. In a special invitation race, Roy Cochran, onetime Indiana University star, now wearing the colors of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, chalked up 52:2 for the 440-yd. -a new world's record...
...Winton, an eight-year-old gelding owned and ridden by Socialite Stuart S. Janney Jr: the 49th running of the Maryland Hunt Cup, stiffest steeplechase in the U.S.; outjumping eight stout rivals and finishing the awesome four-mile course in 8 min., 44 4/5 sec.; near Baltimore. Having won the Grand National and My Lady's Manor point-to-points on two previous Saturdays, Janney & Winton made a grand slam of Maryland's famed hunt races-a feat never before accomplished...
...Resigned to enter Navy. Sec A. C. vote February...
...standbys like AAA, CCC. FBI, NYA, RFC, SEC and TVA had been around so long that they were now more or less familiar. Anyone who didn't know these initials was out of luck. And knowing them now was no good: most had been superseded by weird new wartime initials. For instance: FCC is less important than DCB (Defense Communications Board), and NLRB plays second fiddle to NWLB (National War Labor Board...
...alive who knows or needs to know most of them. If he did, he could not find them. They were moving: REA was on its way to St. Louis, one of 14 peacetime bureaus which had moved or were moving to make more Washington room for war agencies. SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) is now in Philadelphia, the Patent Office in Richmond. To Kansas City will soon go FCA (Farm Credit Administration), to Chicago the Interior Department's divisions of Fish and Wild Life, Indian Affairs and National Parks...