Word: bets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is a crazy game and the Triple Crown, for which millions of dollars are bet all winter on horses that never even get to the post, is probably the craziest part of it all. There won't be a Triple Crown winner this year, and tomorrow's Belmont Stakes, the oldest, last, and longest of the three races resolves itself into one question: which horse will make it two out of three-- Proud Clarion, who beat Damascus in the third-fastest Derby in history, or Damascus, who beat Proud Clarion in the second-fastest Preakness...
Crimson two-miler Jim Baker may not receive a victory as a homecoming present. Al Altman of Oxford is the South African record holder at three miles and would be a sure bet in the two mile. If Alman runs the mile, he will have to battle both Shaw and Yale's 4:08 miler, Steve Bittner...
...Bet Money Honey, Linda Scott...
...First Bet. Once limited mostly to a chain of "Post House" eateries located at some of its terminals, the company's non-bus operations are growing with greyhound speed. While transportation revenue has grown by 21% since 1962, Greyhound's other businesses have nearly quadrupled, last year accounted for 26% of Greyhound's record $546 million income and $47 million profit...
Greyhound's turn to diversification began in 1962, when Chairman Frederick W. Ackerman, fearing a leveling off of bus travel, began searching for new uses of Greyhound's cash. His first bet became a bonanza. For $14.7 million in stock, Greyhound bought San Francisco's Boothe Leasing Corp., which had been earning $400,000 a year mainly by leasing railroad freight cars and locomotives. Ackerman began buying jetliners-and made money when the credit-shy airlines started cashing in on the jet age. The subsidiary's earnings have zoomed 1,300%, to $6.2 million...