Word: yardings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nipped in the Bud. Like a master switchman in a freight yard, he bossed the whole Santa Anita operation from his cupola, rigged up a battery of telephones to connect him with every corner of the enclosure. It has worked, so far. Original stockholders, who paid $5,000 a share, have been offered $62,500 for them. Besides paying out whopping dividends, Doc plows great chunks of money back into his gold mine-giving paying guests more comfort, beauty, entertainment and $100,000 races. This winter, at a cost of $400,000, he opened a fancy new lounge and restaurant...
...Manhattan last week, the cotton men reported on the first seven months of the selling drive. It was far rosier than expected. Monthly sales for 37-inch sheeting, the most widely used bagging, had more than doubled-to 6,370,000 yards. Far from satisfied, the cotton men hoped to reach the 15,550,000-yard mark for 37-inch sheeting before long, and have their market...
While things were relatively quiet, someone from Thayer took a successful potshot with a snowball at one of the Yard cops. The startled officer dashed after the prankster and both disappeared into Thayer's Middle entry...
...McCormick took his second in the 45 yard high hurdles, Harvey Thayer and Jonathan Spivak got theirs in separate 50 yard dash heats, Peter Harwood tied for a second in the pole vault, and both the freshman and varsity mile relay teams were runners...
...spectators with one of the biggest thrills of the day with their neck and neck race with Yale. Tom McGrath led off, ran a steady race, and passed the stick to John Packard who lost ground to Yale's Ellinger. Rounie Berman then narrowed the Elis' margin to 3 yards. Anchor man Eddie Grutsner made a gallant try for the lead but Yale's Brown finished with a 1 1/2 yard advantage. The winning time was 329.9 with Dartmouth in 3rd place. Berman noted that inexperience in competition seemed to be what hurt the '52 runners most...