Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Belmont's mile-and-a-half is a long grind; the starting pace was slow. Jockey Warren Mehrtens, up on Assault, had orders to hold him back until Lord Boswell made his move. Jockey Mehrtens dutifully obeyed for a mile, decided he could wait no longer, and set out for the leaders. Assault overtook them in the home stretch, finished three lengths ahead. His winning time (2:30 4/5) was nothing sensational, but the victory put the Texas-bred horse into racing's select seven that have won All Three.* It also made Assault the 13th biggest prizewinner...
...Bawl Street Journal ad: "See the Kaiser or Frazer before you buy! We'd like to see one ourselves some day. There's real no-driving pleasure in ordering a Kaiser-Frazer car. . . . Besides, your deposit will draw interest each January and July 1 while you wait for delivery. Kaiser, Frazer, Superman & Thurston. 'Automobiles Floated on Water.' While you wait for our cars-Take a ride in our stock...
...stable of byliners, including Critic Ward Morehouse, Cartoonist Rube Goldberg, Paragrapher H. I. Phillips. By long custom, Sun editorial writers are anonymous and stay that way: Francis Pharcellus Church, who wrote the famous "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" editorial on short notice in 1897, had to wait until his obituary (1906) to get credit...
...quantity, bad on cost. Example: In 1944 pig iron cost Fontana $24.50 a ton v. $17.42 for the government-owned Geneva plant. Since then Kaiser has lowered his costs. With Eagle Mountain, Kaiser expects to quote steel-hungry Pacific Coast industries new low steel prices, but steelmen will wait & see. The mine won't be in full production for at least six months, and even then ore will have to be trucked 50 miles to the Southern Pacific tracks at Indio...
Test a Theory. For years, Little's theories had to wait upon the practical necessity of keeping Special Yarns out of the red. Then the war came. Little found himself busy on war work (parachutes, jungle hammocks, etc.) until the Army suddenly began to cancel contracts in 1943. Carefully Royal Little weighed his chances, decided not to curtail production but to reconvert, expand and integrate...