Word: bets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aeronautics-the first non-Annapolis man ever to head a bureau. He kept out of public participation in the unification and B-36 battles, but Admiral Robert Hickey, now chief of staff to the Navy's Far East commander, says: "He was in there fighting, you can bet on that, but nobody would even have known...
...need for power. If India is to develop its mineral deposits, increase it's food productions and industrialize its economy, it will need more energy than can come from all its badly distributed coal and water power. Dr. Bhabha believes that atomic energy is India's best bet, and that the country's need will force India to put atomic energy to work quickly...
...principals are working for the state as judge and chief inspector at the Tampa greyhound race track; another teacher gets $9 a day from the state at the track as assistant auditor. The track itself is employing five more principals and two more teachers for such jobs as bet-taker and gatekeeper. Thundered the indignant Tribune: "In their private lives, they [principals and teachers] must conduct themselves so as to set an example for youth. A race track is essentially a gambling place . . . Some tracks in the past have fallen under control of known racketeers and their associates." Retorted...
...funds to plug a deficit in its Soccorso Invernale (Winter Help for the Needy). Already taxed were theaters, movies, authors' copyrights, railroad tickets, streetcar fares, ski lifts and admission tickets to gambling casinos and race tracks. The next step, the government decided, was to tax track bets as well. Last year Italian horseplayers bet 30 billion lire ($48,000,000), and 1% of that sum would have been ample to help the Winter Help. But a clerk in the Ministry of Interior tripped over his decimals in drafting the law. He made the tax 10% instead of 1%. Interior...
...bet it is. She'd come up here with a knife and slash our best clothes if we didn't leave something...