Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Copenhagen and Stockholm reports said that Finnish planes had bombed a 12-mile stretch of the rail line near Murmansk, ripping up tracks and thoroughly disrupting Russian communications...
...plant in the U. S. but also ideally suited for classic distance races like the Belmont Stakes (1½ miles), Jockey Club Gold Cup (2 miles), Lawrence Realization (if miles). But, because of its vastness, Belmont has long been unpopular with grandstand spectators, who rarely see anything but the stretch run of the shorter-races. Even Turf & Field Club patrons, who have followed races through binoculars ever since they could hist a pair, are hard put to it to distinguish jockeys' silks over the landscape gardening in the infield...
...HAVEN, Conn., Nov, 24 Two problems one mechanical and one psychological have held the spotlight of attention for Ducky Pond this week as be sent the Yale squad down the home stretch, bound for the climactic clash in the Harvard Stadium tomorrow...
Sixty-eight-year-old Henry C. Turner, a Quaker from Maryland's tony Eastern Shore, came out of Swarthmore in 1893, when the U. S., ceasing to stretch out, was beginning to build up, turning to reinforced concrete to do it with. His company grew rapidly, helped by generous orders from Paper Magnate Robert Gair, Warehouse Magnate Irving Bush. Up to Sept. 15, 1939 it had done $434,333,000 worth of business, eight of its jobs exceeding $5,000,000 apiece, 126 running from $1-$5,000,000. Nineteen twenty-nine was its best year (gross...
...ground, she swings through an enjoyable pastel plot with occasional time-outs to show off a very nice voice. C. Aubrey Smith crashes through again as one of the better parts of the supporting cast. There are also a couple of Katzenjammer Kids who might, with only a small stretch of the imagination, be considered the hit of the show...