Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general run of people still believe that the old family doctor has his points. And last week the No. 1 U.S. medical publishing house placed a sizable bet on the general practitioner's future: a five-volume, monumental compendium of modern medical knowledge (An Integrated Practice of Medicine, W. B. Saunders Co., $50). Its aim: to make the family doctor an up-to-date, "compleat practitioner...
...many Torontonians, the committee found, go to movies that are not good for them to see. Furthermore, they bet on horse races, read naughty books that are banned in Boston, attend burlesque shows that are banned even in sinful New York, and drink liquor till...
According to the wise boys, an "East Side syndicate" had bet $125,000 on Cowboy Shank at 4 to 1. The gamblers, who were not content to take the small bettors' honest risks (see below), stood to win $500,000 if Rocky lost...
...third straight week, $11,000,000 in bets went through the mutuel windows at California's Santa Anita race track. In England last year, people bet ?500,000,000 on horses and dogs. Since most bettors usually lose, why do they keep at it? In London's Spectator, a reformed English bettor named Edwin Leonard Packer made a remarkably clear dissection of the anatomy of gambling...
...action was of more significance than a mere change in trading technicalities. During the war the market, the consensus of guesses on the financial future, went steadily up as 1) speculators bet on more inflation to come and 2)some of the inflationary cash went into the market because there were no goods for it to buy. The FRB steadily cut down trading on margin until a year ago, when Chairman Eccles decided that inflation had reached "dangerous proportions." To brake the market, he put trading on a cash basis. Now, Marriner Eccles was finally recognizing what the collapse...