Word: bets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Will Bet...
Original Subscriber Cadwallader Evans [p. 23, Nov. 8] is too enthusiastic. His guess of 50% is all wet. I'll bet your returns do not amount to 1%, much less 50%. When direct mail advertisers regard 2% as a good return when they are giving good value, even TIME will do well to get even 1,000 people to "fill it in, encase it in an en- velope, address it, stamp it, mail it," when the "it" is a list of questions which can do the answerer no good...
Eventually betting was resumed on the legal basis that the Government must receive between 2% and 3 ½% of every bet laid, according to the nature of the bet. Small itinerant bookies must pay their tax through the sale of tickets. The great betting concessionaires may file their tax returns with the Government direct on the basis of their duly audited accounts...
...within a week two productions of the same show, even though it is one of Shaw's worst, is now as dead as the dodo, the German war guilt and Ogden Mills. Weren't it for a friend of ours who goes to Vermont State Normal School we'd bet on Radcliffe, that is, knowing the Repertory...
...your magazine out? How big is your office? How many men on your staff? Have you any correspondents or have you a wide-reading staff? How do you work your material together as you do ? Are your men ex-newspaper men ? I'll bet they are. I think TIME readers would enjoy hearing about these things...