Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admirers was his performance in the Rhode Island Handicap at Narragansett Park four years ago. Setting the pace for famed War Admiral, Kentucky Derby winner the previous year, he rewrote the script by holding off the Admiral's bid until the homestretch, then, in a spine-tingling stretch duel, reached the wire close on the Admiral's heels...
Moore got into ship-engine building after years as a successful West Coast distributor of machine tools and a short stretch spent in Washington as a $1-a-year man in the machine-tool section of OPM. Stifled there by red tape and bungling, he soon left, bought the venerable Sunnyvale (Calif.) Joshua Hendy Iron Works, whose physical assets consisted chiefly of a dilapidated foundry, an assortment machine tools, 35 acres of pear orchard's and some skilled machinists. One of them, Peter McKeand, ground the shaft for the old U.S.S. Oregon. In the spring of 1941 Moore...
Three hundred and twenty-five chaplains marched, sat norvously in their classes, and carried out their work under the grinding of cameras and the shouts of directors last week. After a two weeks stretch in Florida, the picture will be finished after a total of three weeks on location...
...Italians prisoner. The Italians were surrendering on all sides - 30 to the London News Chronicle's War Correspondent William Forrest, hundreds of others to an unarmed medical staff. Two British colonels from the Intelligence staff, with one tommy gun between them, found themselves on a sandy stretch of desert just east of Matrûh with one Italian general and 80 Italian officers pleading to be taken to a prisoners' camp. "The best thing I can suggest," one colonel said, "is for you to proceed to the Fuka railway station and take the train to Alexandria." They...
Last week Whirlaway gave his admirers more than a swish. Dressed in his devil's-red hood with one-eyed blinker (to keep him from bearing out), he strutted to the post, cakewalked around the track until he reached the stretch, then, with nothing to pass but the grandstand, put on the famed finishing sprint that has made him the turf world's top money winner. Time: 2:05 2/5 for the mile-and-three-sixteenths...