Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wasn't sure I was in the Philadelphia Navy Yard, I would bet this was Bremen or a Munich beer hall...
...Army is missing a bet in its distribution of medals. So far, Carole Landis has not been awarded a medal for having the largest chest measurement of any entertainer to visit the battle areas...
...front quick. His $26,000 stablemate, Star Pilot, moved up to threaten in the stretch, but instead of being awed by the competition, Knockdown went on to win by two lengths. The prize: 37 times Knockdown's purchase price. He thus became a good bet for the Big Three coming up (Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont), whose purses have been boosted to $100,000 this year...
...Place a Bet. The wellspring of American capitalism, Johnston argued, is the American fondness for taking chances. "The human element in the capitalistic system is the recognition of man's innate urge to take chances, to be respected, to be recognized, to be a man and not a number. But the average American today is frustrated by his inability to bet on himself....The average American can count on nothing but his pay envelope, and in bad times, sometimes not on that....He feels that he bears no direct relation to the ultimate result of the profit system when...
...These should have been in your paper," he scolded. "You are ignoring news important to 65% of the people-and missing a good bet." As an experiment, Seltzer hired him at $35 a week. Soon, in a homely, rough-cut column called "Around the World in Cleveland," new and jawbreaking names began to appear in the Press. Known in the office either as the "Hunky" or "broken-English" editor, to whom every mustached office visitor was automatically referred, Andrica worked tirelessly to promote giant dance festivals and international exhibits (one drew 150,000 people), organized a Council for American Unity...