Word: share
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scant or not, the margin in the two heats, both timed in a sharp 2:02, made it a big day for Lusty Song and Owner Hayes. The winner's share of the record $75,208 purse: $40,537. It was a big day for Del Miller, too. He picked up a check for $4,053, the driver...
...winner's share of the purse was small: $3,750. But to Owner Verhurst and Proximity it was a big one. The money brought Proximity's race earnings to $208,629, breaking the alltime trotting record of $206,462, set by Goldsmith Maid in 1877.* Proximity's time: 2:05 2/5, bettering the old track record...
Stuffed in odd places around home were a full share of tarnished Navy Crosses, D.F.C.s and Air Medals from World War II. But for four years everybody in VF-781 had been too busy flying in the present to bother polishing up the past. One weekend every month 36 Naval Reserve pilots would converge on the Los Alamitos (Calif.) Naval Air Station and thunder off on maneuvers in their stubby Grumman Hellcat fighters-unanimously elated to escape from the humdrum chores of selling insurance, studying law or changing diapers. Their bashful, blond skipper, Lieut. Commander Collin Oveland...
...catch its share of the swarms of postwar tourists, the proud city of Antwerp (pop. 266,636) has been delving into its rich old attic and displaying its heirlooms-the work of generations of Flemish craftsmen and painters. This summer Antwerp is trying something...
...morale and efficiency. Houghton quadrupled the number of Muzak's customers, brought it from a near loss to a tidy but unreported profit. Muzak provides hardly any direct service to the customer. Instead, it sells the Muzak concession to individuals in different cities and takes a 10% share of their gross from charges of $35 a month and up for the service...