Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearly $400,000,000 was bet at the 70-odd U. S. race tracks last year. Antigambling crusades, carried...
Strictly amateur punters. Mrs. Dwyer and Miss O'Brien had gone to the Bowie race track outside Washington, had chipped in $1 apiece to place a bet on the daily double, selecting No. 1 (a long shot named Charles F.) for the first race and No. 9 (a longer shot named James Boy) for the second race-just because they liked the number...
While quick-thinking Police Clerk Dwyer announced to Washington newshawks that his newly famed wife had placed the bet for an undisclosed friend to whom she had to turn over her winnings, the two women went into hiding to avoid salesmen and reporters...
...very well with Vanitie and Yankee but in 1931, lonely after separating from his first wife, he returned to business, as J. P. Morgan & Co.'s trouble-shooter for the slipping Gillette Safety Razor Co. His bet was that he would lift the earnings to $5 per share, or take no pay. If he succeeded, he would get 20,000 Gillette shares, and 20,000 more if earnings reached $6. Depression kept him from lifting earnings above $1.98 after four years of trying, but the new one-piece Gillette which opens up like a clamshell is basically his invention...
Henry Ford offered to "bet anyone even money there will never be another...