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...poor man's national supper of fish & chips (French fried potatoes) at a stall is fast becoming fish and mashed potatoes...
...fields) and headed up a wide ravine into the hills. The Boeing's best rate of climb on one engine was not quite enough. No more than 100 feet from the top of the rise, Pilot Wright saw he must certainly crash. He eased his ship into a stall close to the trees, let her pancake. Her right wing ripped off and she banged down to the ground, her tail flipping forward over the fuselage...
With a three point lead and four minutes to go Cornell started to stall but alert Bill Webber put an end to this policy. Retrieving the ball on a bad pass from Jolly, Webber made a fast break down the floor and bounced a pass through three racing Cornell defenders to Joe Romance, who flipped it through the hoop...
This week, when Santa Anita and Golden Gate ring up the curtain on California's winter racing season, every stall will be filled. Santa Anita's purses will be larger (averaging $20,000 a day), will therefore attract more high-grade horses. But an increasing number of California turfmen complain that Santa Anita has snubbed their homebreds to make room for big-name Eastern stables. For them, Golden Gate will be a horseman's heaven...
...member commissioners Stettinius, Henderson. Purpose of the board was to work out a priorities system. In some industries-notably among the more defenseless customers of copper- priorities were already needed to determine who gets what. And besides, if logjammed suppliers are told they must make defense deliveries first, stall off their old (and often more profitable) private customers, this may encourage some of the plant expansion the U. S. sorely needs...