Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign for governor, had routed an already beaten opponent. Instead of the expected close finish, popular Stassenman Ed Thye breezed in ahead of longtime (24 years) isolationist Senator Henrik Shipstead with a 3-to-2 lead. With a near-record Republican turnout, winner Thye looked like a sure bet for the Senate in the fall. His running-mate, Luther Youngdahl, was nominated for the Minnesota governor's chair by an even larger majority...
...Conservatives would probably have won anyway. The new constitution was expected to back clerical schooling and keep the Indian in his semifeudal place, but not to sacrifice recent social and economic gains by city workers. The assembly would also choose the next Ecuadorean President. It was an even-money bet that they would not re-elect the erratic incumbent, Dr. José Maria Velasco Ibarra...
...week, then sagged down again. For four years, the Big Bull market had been riding up on inflation. Now, when there were cries on all sides that the greatest inflation was yet to come, cold-eyed speculators were not so sure. They wanted to be surer before they bet...
...basis. Estimated profit: $100 to $150 per house. Ludwig will get only $50 for selling the house and handling the paper work. The architect will get $10 a house. The Cleveland Trust Co. will give mortgages, at 4% interest, up to the full price of the house. Templeton is betting that the houses will cost less than $6,000 each. Buyers will pay $6,000. But they will get a refund if the houses cost less. Says Templeton: "I've bet a builder $10 to a bottle of Scotch that the veterans will get a rebate of about...
...feet long, and a pride of the WPA Art Project when it was painted eight years ago. It was meant to portray 100 years of Iowa history. It was painted in the neat, stiff manner which Grant Wood made famous, and just to make its immortality a sure bet, it was done in the favorite medium of Renaissance art, egg tempera...