Word: winners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousand dollars for ten seconds on the back of Big syd, the Brahma Bull, attracted 500 local neophyte cowboys Sunday afternoon, but Cheeney was the unfortunate winner of the drawing. Big Syd was apparently well trained or rather untrained by his owners and succeeded in throwing the professor in 4 1/2 seconds, and the Rodeo people put their $1000 safely back in the cash register...
...added that the winner and the runner-up in each of yesterday's heats is qualified to race in the finals next Friday...
...winner would face problems that could hardly be handled from an easy chair. Chile had become the international Thin Man. The cost of living had doubled since 1939. A dozen eggs cost 60?, an ordinary shirt $6 and the average worker earning about $1 a day was out of luck. Even Chile's famed social laws, which insured him against practically everything, were powerless to buy him shirt or eggs. From his predicament spiraled massive social problems: poor public health (devastating tuberculosis and infant mortality rates), declining industrial output, alcoholism...
...Goshen, N.Y., long the mecca of harness horsemen, the Hambletonian had its 21st renewal. Winner: a bay colt named Chestertown, bought the week before the race by Walter E. Smith, a rags-to-riches West Coast industrialist turned harness-racing promoter. Driver: grizzled, 72-year-old Tom Berry, who had broken two ribs and his wrist in a spill two days earlier...
Died. Mrs. George (Blanche Bingley) Hillyard, 83, pioneer woman tennis star in the age of whalebone and bustles, six-time winner of the Wimbledon ladies' title between 1886 and 1900; in Pulborough, England...