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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legislature had also allotted more than $12 million for capital improvements such as highways and hospitals, more than $11 million for capital contributions for sewers, aqueducts, housing, and irrigation. But that was only a start on Muñoz' program to make the island a better place to live. He planned soon to call a special session to provide for new schools, instruction for illiterates (25% of the island's population), child care, and the organization of cooperative stores...
...track was sloppy for the $40,000 Wood Memorial, the race that had been a Derby stepping stone for such great horses as Twenty Grand, Gallant Fox, Count Fleet and Assault. The odds on Olympia were a prohibitive 1 to 3. He shot into the lead at the start, in a driving rainstorm, and stayed in front by a length or two to the homestretch. There, mud-loving Palestinian caught him and forged slightly ahead. Jockey Eddie Arcaro stung Olympia once with the whip, then gave the form players a chill by hand-riding the horse through the last sixteenth...
...murder story every week. After one man was kidnaped and shot, Campbell hired a pack of bloodhounds and set out to follow the bloodstains. When the dogs yelped their way to a house, Campbell burst in the door and found a woman nursing a nosebleed. But after this false start, Campbell scooped Jack London, reporting for the rival Examiner, by fishing the victim's severed head out of San Francisco Bay. He was arrested for removing evidence, but the photographed head made Page One, and in San Francisco the gruesome exhibit made Campbell the reporter hero...
...America, Inc. of San Pedro, Calif., founded last year by 34-year-old, Austrian-born Fred Miller. A civilian personnel director for the Army Air Forces, Miller joined the Flying Tigers cargo airline after the war and saved $15,000. This was enough to rent four DC-45 and start flying the lucrative Los Angeles-New York route last July. Flying 20 round trips a month at cut-rate fares of $99 ($58.85 under scheduled lines), Air America had carried 11,270 passengers by the end of the year. It had grossed $1,600,000 and netted a tidy...
Dusty Cook gave up 11 hits in his first start of the year against Wentworth, and six freshman errors didn't help. Eight freshman hits included triples by Ben Akilian and Ralph Robinson, doubles by cook and Captain Jack Donelan, and singles by Win Carduff, Bill Hickey, Henry Young, and Al Switzer...