Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barbara Ann wins the Olympic title, will she turn pro? It is a good bet that she will. Hollywood is making eyes at her, so is at least one ice show, and 101 manufacturers of soaps and skin lotions would soon be waving $1,000 bills at her. Says Barbara Ann: "I wish people would stop saying I am going to turn professional all the time. There is no world competition in professional skating-and I like competition." This was obviously the right thing to say at this point, said the cynics at St. Moritz...
Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), which has a synthetic-fuel pilot plant at Baton Rouge, is placing its long-run major bet on gasoline from coal. This week, Standard and the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. broke ground at Library, Pa. for their pilot plant to gasify coal. The next step, a fairly simple one, will be to make petroleum from the gas. Said E. V. Murphree, president of the Standard Oil Development Co.: "Enough oil can be made from the nation's known coal reserves, alone, to last the U.S. for 1,000 years...
...Bet Down. What if the crisis turned out to be much too large for the 1,000 Marines and such other forces as the U.S. had in the Mediterranean? If the Greek army started to lose, for instance, something more than 1,000 Marines would be required to hold the line which the U.S.-and the U.N.-had drawn at the Greek border. And what if Russia or one of her satellites took steps leading to general war? Washington was betting against that chance. The Truman Doctrine, the ERP, and last week's moves in the Mediterranean were...
...week cub Hearstling on the Detroit Times and a rabid sports fan, screwed up his courage, walked up to the city desk, and asked if he could please go see the Rose Bowl game. City Editor John MacLellan surprised him. Instead of turning him down, the boss proposed a bet: if Breslin wanted to hitchhike out to Pasadena and crash the gate, all on $50 of his own, he could go ahead. If he made it, the Times would pay him back...
...Bet. Yet no one felt that the nation had garnered all the fruits of this production victory. In throwing off all controls, the U.S. had bet that industry could pour out enough goods to lick the wartime inflation. However, the cost of living went up from 153.3 to 166 during 1947 (1941 figure: 105.2). Inflation, if judged only by $1 a pound butter, 85? a dozen eggs and 89? a pound bacon, was worse at year's end than at the start...