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...everywhere, the trend was toward lower purses. Last week, Saratoga announced a cut in its minimum purses from $3,000 to $2,500. At Santa Anita, which last winter managed three $100,000 races in a single meeting, horsemen were complaining about giving away so much money in one chunk, instead of spreading it around. Cheap horses, they argued, eat as much hay and oats as stakes winners...
...State of New Mexico went to Federal Court last week to stop the U.S. Government from grabbing any more of its land. This time it was the U.S. Army which wanted full title to a chunk of New Mexico almost as big as New Jersey - the 7,200-square-mile White Sands Proving Ground area for guided missiles...
Russian-born Joe Schenck was one of the somebodies-and he has made much more than a million. He controls an estimated $50 million worth of theaters and a big chunk of stock in 20th Century-Fox Film Corp., which he and Darryl Zanuck formed...
...fell on Dennis' shoulder. They were times to try the soul of a less artful dodger. Times were not good for U.S. communism. Organized labor, which had once been so tolerant of the whole business, had reacted violently against it. The party which had once controlled a good chunk of the C.I.O. unions, retained desperate control in only two big ones: the electric workers and the West Coast longshoremen. The alien cast of communism's face became plain for everyone to see. The disclosure of Communist espionage sent Reds scuttling in every direction...
South of St. Louis (Warner) actually takes place just north of the Rio Grande. A Technicolored western, masquerading in fits & starts as a chunk of Civil War history, it has a doubleheader love story and a hydra-headed plot...