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Knowles allowed the Bruins only two hits, and, although surrendering eight bases on balls, he spaced them out over the six innings that were played before rain took over so that Brown did not threaten except in the first. Collecting three strike outs, he has backed by a team that committed only two errors...
From time to time in its 25 years, radio has threatened, or seemed to threaten, the press as a competitor. Last week, a radio engineer gave the press new cause to consider its existence instead of its freedom...
Guatemala's Arévalo government also recently introduced a steep profits tax, despite a concession wangled from Ubico forbidding new taxation on United Fruit till 1981. Bargaining is tough. With huge new plantations in the Dominican Republic ready to sprout bananas by 1947, United Fruit can threaten to shut down in Guatemala, as it did in Colombia when disease and the government moved...
...facts as presented, showed deficiencies in food supplies that threaten death by starvation to untold millions in other lands. The facts show this country to be the principal hope for salvation. The facts also show an increase in food consumption in this country of substantial proportions above the prewar years...
Knockdown had been assigned the job of making pace, and got out in front quick. His $26,000 stablemate, Star Pilot, moved up to threaten in the stretch, but instead of being awed by the competition, Knockdown went on to win by two lengths. The prize: 37 times Knockdown's purchase price. He thus became a good bet for the Big Three coming up (Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont), whose purses have been boosted to $100,000 this year...