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...Glisson's first spill since four horses piled up in the stretch at Belmont Park last June. That day, with one jockey hurt and two others stunned, he walked calmly back to the jockeys' room where an excited doctor exclaimed: "That was a pretty bad spill." Glisson, dirty and dusty, stared at the doc with cold, blue eyes and said matter-of-factly: "I've seen worse." At 18, he has the kind of unshakable coolness that makes him a standout among the hard-boiled little men he rides against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Kid with the Cold Eye | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

After last week's spill, many a U.S. horse player who bet on nothing but Glisson's mounts had to find a new system temporarily. Their blue-eyed boy, who was earning around $50,000 a year before he was old enough to shave regularly, was out of business for a few weeks with a broken collarbone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Kid with the Cold Eye | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...This colony of cancer cells, which grew from a single cell in 31 days, has begun to spill out of a tiny glass tube. The cells are magnified about 70 times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Frontal Attack | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...trouble, he said, centered in the vast "B" Building of the 1,096-acre Rouge plant, where assembly lines normally spill out between 330 and 350 Fords every eight-hour working day. For several months, Reuther said, Ford had been speeding up the assembly line without consulting the union or adding more workers. Reuther called this "an unsolved grievance." Ford denied the union's charges, suggested arbitration as provided by the contract. Reuther countered that the arbitrator would have to be "part doctor, engineer and astrologer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Trouble at River Rouge | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...drop was not only in foods. Some oil companies, in their fourth successive slash in the price of fuel oil, brought the total cut to about 33%. In two months lumber had felt its biggest price spill since war's end. Prices of secondhand automobiles, both "new" and used, came tumbling down. Dealers were so overstocked with "new-used" 1949 models in the higher-priced cars that they had cut their buying offers to 10% and 15% below list prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Shakeout | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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