Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fruits & vegetables. Once a smuggling port known as "Colonel Kinney's Ranch and Trading Post," Corpus Christi ships cotton, with shrimp and oysters as sidelines. Port Aransas is the world's greatest crude oil shipping port and a famed fishing resort. Port Arthur, founded by John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, and Beaumont, birthplace of Athlete Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, form the world's biggest oil refining centre...
Last year the Aga Khan was especially pleased with Bahrain's victory because it was Jubilee year. Last week's Derby, though bookmakers estimated that more money had been bet on the race than ever before, was the gloomiest since the War. The huge crowd-perching on the tops of automobiles or busses, milling about fortune tellers' tents in the central enclosure, raising a great grey haze of dust above the Downs-was less rowdy than usual. The glass-enclosed box, where the Aga Khan last year received congratulations from his King, was banked with flowers...
...bet you won't lead your ticket in tomorrow's primaries...
...taken out $20,000 worth of income tax insurance on behalf of an advertising agent named Alfred Bates. Alfred Bates was one of Jim Thomas' most intimate friends. Another Thomas intimate is Sir Alfred Butt, Conservative M. P., theatrical producer and insurance underwriter. Sir Alfred had bet heavily against a rise in the income tax, only to hedge on all these bets the morning of Chancellor Chamberlain's Budget Speech and add $39,000 worth of Budget insurance on his own account...
...then by a chorus of "ayes," the House this week took the two parliamentary steps required to bring the measure to the Floor. Pooh-poohed Speaker Byrns: "The bill has no more chance of passage in the House than anything in the world, and you can bet your bottom dollar on that...