Word: betting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...road that helped develop the great Alabama steel areas (and vice versa); it was the road whose passengers used to be met by grinning waiters with free Sazerac cocktails; it was the road which John W. (Bet-you-a-Million) Gates kidnapped from J. P. Morgan's corral in a spectacular Stock Exchange raid in 1902. Gates made $10,000,000 by selling the stock to J. P. Morgan, who then resold it to Atlantic Coast Line. A.C.L. still owns 51% of L. & N. common...
...Rayburn of Texas left the microphone in the well of the House where he had been speaking, picked his way hurriedly back up to the marble dais and the gavel of his authority. The Speaker's face was strained, but he had the composure of a gambler whose bet is down. Tennessee's Jere Cooper, Speaker pro tempore, spoke the ritual words: "The time of the gentleman from Texas has expired-all time has expired...
Once again Dick Harlow must be happy, for it is a fairly sure bet that when the cadets march into the Stadium at 1:15 o'clock this Saturday, their team will be on the long side of the betting, and that is exactly the way that Giant Killer Harlow would have planned...
...price controls. Acting Bureau, of Labor Statistics Commissioner A. Ford Hinrichs described this agency's job as "priorities continued literally in reverse . . . favoring everything other than those [wartime] contracts." The Round Table also agreed with Defense Housing Coordinator Charles F. Palmer that housing is the best and biggest bet for post-war investment and employment...
Cold, but breezeless morning airs yesterday made the three elimination races anybody's bet, but Harvard qualified for the finals by taking third place in its division...