Word: sportsmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AMID the grind of the Machine Age, U.S. sportsmen still revere and enjoy the horse. Most of their excitement comes from racing (some 600 tracks with 50 million customers a year), but to a lot of Americans the horse means homier, less high-pitched forms of sport...
...reports from all our sources, are devoting themselves mostly to just plain fun, like the newlyweds motoring down the Loire Valley in a rented new bug-model Citroen, the bald Philadelphian sipping vermouth and eying the Italian beauties strolling along Rome's Via Veneto, or the middle-aged sportsmen playing at being matadors in Madrid's new bullfighting cafe...
World War II. Concentrating on light, two-place personal planes for returning G.I.s and sportsmen, the plane makers had a few brief years of heady profits, then nose-dived when the war-inspired interest in private flying died down. By 1950 many of the hopeful new firms had gone broke, and the big three found the going rough. What gave them a lift was the new businessman-flyer, plus defense orders. With the increasing diversification of U.S. industry, thousands of businessmen found flying a necessity. But up to then, most of their planes were war-surplus bombers and transports that...
...Calcutta, more than 3,500,000 tickets (highest total since 1932) on the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes had been sold at ?i apiece. Half the money went for prizes and a fourth for overhead of the Hospitals Trust-still directed by ex-I.R.A. Fighter Joe McGrath, one of three sportsmen who first sponsored the sweeps. After the government took its bite for stamp duty, there was 38. gd. (52?) left out of each ticket for the hospitals. The week's haul of $1,830,000 made a total of $110 million for the 25 years since the thrice-yearly...
...concerning his recent stag dinners and about jealous protests from people who were not invited. The announced guest lists for 38 of the dinners had included the names of 294 businessmen; 81 Administration officials; 51 editors, publishers and writers; 30 educators; 23 Republican Party leaders; 18 scientists, artists and sportsmen; 16 military friends; ten heads of foundations or charities; nine farmers and farm leaders; eight union leaders; six church leaders; five relatives, and four state and local officials. While some observers have concluded that the White House stag dinner is a potent political instrument, Hagerty said: "Personal guests...