Word: yet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disappointed, though ore samples did contain gold. Last week a government communique announced: "Lieut. Colonel Heysen's report and valuable ore samples will be carefully studied and analyzed. The results will be used as a basis for further operations." Some Peruvians wondered if the "further operations" might not yet lead to El Dorado...
...thoroughbred races in his state. Owners of thoroughbred stables threw up their hands in horror, and none of the Chicago tracks made any immediate move to take advantage of the bill. Even the small track owners, strongest supporters of the legislation, weren't turning on the lights just yet. Explained Ray Bennigsen of Illinois' Hawthorne and Sportsman's Park: "The bill, I believe, was put through as a surety measure in view of the decline in betting on the thoroughbreds at all Chicago tracks this year. We all know what lights have done for baseball, football...
Since war's end, the stock market has been a faulty barometer of business activity, but a fair guide to what businessmen are thinking. In 1946 everyone expected a slump, and the market cracked wide open -yet for two years there was no slump in business...
Still, the creeping recession had not yet crept all over. Detroit was riding high, with the auto industry driving for its biggest postwar year. Last week Chrysler Corp. came up with record first-half earnings of $6.12 a share...
Retiring Ralph Budd was much too full of beans to settle down yet. When he leaves the "Q," he will move into the chairmanship of the Chicago Transit Board at $35,000 a year...