Word: bets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the Courthouse. Early dealers had their problems. One Ohio dealer worriedly asked Ford if he should bet a competitor $500 that the model S Ford could beat a rival car to Columbus and back. Wrote back confident Mr. Ford: "Is it any credit for the U.S. to whip Venezuela? Take a bet like that with any car." To make a sale, a Kentucky dealer had to drive a Ford up the courthouse steps to prove that the car was as sturdy as a horse. For others who also raised this point, Ford had a brochure: "Autos do the work...
...Bet. In Martinsville. Ind., after the city council decided against insuring its new $14,000 fire truck because it would "always" have the right of way, the fire truck hit the town's only police car, was wrecked...
...banker, the calculations of a mathematician and the promotional genius of a crack retailer. Smith has made Harold's Club the biggest business in Reno and the biggest gambling house in the U.S. Last year an average of 10.000 customers jammed into Harold's every day. bet well over $100 million over the year that they could beat Ray Smith's partnership with chance. Upwards of 30% of them succeeded. But from the rest. Harold's Club grossed an estimated $15 million for a net which outsiders put at $2,000,000. Last week...
...subscriber's lack of faith in TIME'S address-changing system once cost him the price of a hat. He bet his wife a new hat that the change couldn't be made in less than four weeks. The usual three weeks was enough, and he lost. But another subscriber, in Albuquerque, almost had too much faith, bet a friend a subscription that it could be done in two weeks. He wrote TIME about the bet, and his address change, especially handled, came through on time...
...witness chair of the House subcommittee investigating the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Each time he dropped enough names and dollar signs to whet the investigators' appetites, then retreated into playful forgetfulness or plain refusal to answer. Items: ¶On his 1948 tax return was this item: "Presidential election bets, $20,000." Said Grunewald: "I bet on Harry Truman when everybody else dropped him." Where did he place the bet? With Miami Bookmaker Harold Salvey, a Kefauver committee witness now under indictment for income tax evasion...