Word: training
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Change of Pace. Although the first newspaper pitches were a little wild, Happy Chandler decided to take a swing. Without waiting for an official report, he announced that Durocher was suspended "indefinitely," ordered him to Cincinnati for a hearing this week. Durocher got the news on a Boston-bound train, turned the team over to Frankie Frisch and hopped a plane back to New York...
...payroll had actually earned their money on responsible state jobs. But most of the others, reported Thiem and Harris, had been riding the "gravy train" as "field investigators" and "messenger clerks." One publisher drew $850 as a "public works laborer." But many did render substantial service to Governor Green, said Thiem and Harris -especially at election time. They had faithfully filled their newspapers with editorials and stories ground out by the Green publicity mill...
...Ricans pay no federal income tax. Other PRIDC selling points are the island's abundant labor supply and the fact that wages tend to be lower than the 30?-an-hour minimum in the U.S. To supply skilled workers, the government has built an industrial school equipped to train 3,500 workers at a time in 55 different trades...
...visit to Lexington, Ky., Hooper met ex-Jockey Ivan Parke (the nation's leading rider in 1923-24) and decided to buy some thoroughbreds for Parke to train. The first one he bought, a $10,200 yearling which he named Hoop Jr., won the Kentucky Derby in 1945. It was a plum that many a sportsman had spent years and millions of dollars trying to pluck. Now Lucky Hooper's Olympia, a chunky bay three-year-old with a white face and a pink nose, is the red-hot favorite for the 75th running of the Derby...