Word: sec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Veteran Rodger Ward of Los Angeles, a onetime fighter pilot who had never finished higher than eighth in eight previous "500" races. He nursed the dirty-white Leader Card Special in front to stay on the 86th lap, sped home the winner by a tight 23 sec. over Veteran Jim Rathmann. Ward's average speed-135.857 m.p.h.-was a new record for the race, earned him well over $100.000 in prize money...
...Aided by a 12-m.p.h. wind that made his effort unofficial, Abilene Christian's Bill Woodhouse, 21, did the 100-yd. dash in 9.1 sec., became the third man to reach such a clocking. The others: ex-Southern California Star Mel Patton, and Bobby Morrow, a former Woodhouse teammate at Abilene Christian...
...Despite SEC warnings of "manipulation," the stock market today is not manipulated as it was in the '20s. Then, a pool of speculators would buy enough stock to send it scooting up, stir up public interest so that they could unload at the top. Today, pools are not only illegal; stock ownership is so much broader that a pool could hardly operate. Now, stocks are often moved up by the tools of publicity...
...useful information. But there are also many "blue-sky" writeups that promise great things and fast-buck operators who spread rumors. "The same wild rumor that moved a stock one-eighth a year ago seems to move it eight points today," says Paul Windels Jr., Manhattan district boss of SEC...
...very wet corn snow, Crimson captain Don Stephenson won, Bill Niemi and Al Arkley finishing third and fourth respectively. Though Harvard's victory was quite decisive with only three racing for each college, the total times for the two teams were extremely close: Harvard 217 sec., Yale 224 sec...