Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Will you please settle a bet for an old subscriber? What was the 1914 area of Belgium, and how much of that area was ever occupied by the Germans during World...
Last fortnight, Arthur Vandenberg, U. S. Senator since 1928, on the strength of the tradition he trailed 14 years ago, made a bet with his destiny. The stakes were the highest any U. S. citizen can set - the Presidency, in 1941. For Senator Vandenberg went to battle Franklin Roosevelt over what kind of neutrality the U. S. should have in World...
...Tense Denmark diverted itself with the adventures of a prodigious restaurant keeper from Bogense who bet 5,000 crowns ($970) in July that in 90 days flat he could, unassisted, pull Denmark's oldest car right around the country's borders. With only three miles and 24 hours to go he stopped at an inn to celebrate the certainty of bagging his bet. He celebrated so heartily that he fell asleep, overslept, lost his bet by one hour...
Best Allied bet seemed to be the destruction of the vast supply system needed to feed and munition the 1,000,000-odd men the Germans will have within and behind the Siegfried Position. This is the bombers' job. That done, infantry could then be given a chance to do what skillful infantry has done since time immemorial: take up terrain favorable to it and unfavorable to the enemy-on ridges, slopes, behind spurs-and when the counter-attackers uncoil their spring, let them have it. A bath of dragon's blood made the hero Siegfried invulnerable except...
Durable Consumer Industries all found the updraft. International Harvester was out in front, up 21% on the bet that some of farmers' rising income would be spent on farm machinery...