Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facts of the numbers game. In this simple lottery a player can pick any number from 000 to 999 and place a bet from 1? to $5 or more (most bets are only a few cents) that the same figures will appear in some daily public statistic (e.g., daily bank clearances). Because the odds against the better are 1,000-to-1 and the payoff, minus commissions, is only 540-to-1, numbers is highly profitable to its bankers and collectors. When Dutch Schultz turned his energies from beer-running to numbers, he organized it along military lines with...
...British-mandated Trans- Jordan, British officers foresaw that friendly Bedouins would soon be leading Iraq raiders across the desert into Palestine. Meanwhile, in Palestine itself, twelve Arab terrorists replenished their none-too-full coffers by a new type of coup. In a daylight robbery of a branch Barclays Bank at Nablus, they obtained...
...like children after the Pied Piper. Throughout the neighborhood, treasure hunters began pocking the ground like so many 'forty-niners. But Dumpy shook all pursuers, kept her source secret. By week's end she had brought in $18. Mrs. Stiles took some of the bills to a bank, where she was assured they were neither marked nor on wanted lists. This week all San Antonio was interested or involved in the hunt for Dumpy's roll...
Superstitious, nervous spinsters bank on the old adage that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. Superstitious, nervy gamblers bank on the chance that bad luck will also scatter its bolts. Last week both lightning and luck struck with tragic redundance...
...indices indicated no serious relapse into Depression. Steel production last week was still about 40% of capacity; carloadings were down 8% from the previous week; automobile output at 13,790 units was the year's lowest. Counterbalancing such statistics, power production climbed to the highest point since January, bank debits rose 10%. Detroit wires hummed with thousands of telegrams ordering laid-off workers back to the plants to prepare for what Ward's Automotive Reports foresaw as "a steady rise until November or December...