Word: betting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hesitated with reasons. One reason was the value of a diplomatic listening post in France. Another was the chance that the Germans might overplay their hand, arouse Vichy to partial resistance. The best reason was the small bet the U.S. has placed on General Maxime Weygand to resist any Axis attack on Vichyfrench Africa. General Weygand hates the guts of General de Gaulle...
Just what the plot was General Peñaranda did not care to say, but it seemed a good bet that it had something to do with a man who was supposed to be 6,000 miles away, a fire-eating, 36-year-old aviator, Major Elias Belmonte, Bolivia's Air Attaché in Berlin...
Norman will reach the age limit (70) for Bank of England directors next October. Heretofore London's City had assumed that the limit would be extended for his benefit. Last week this was no longer a good bet. The failure of Britain's early war effort was followed by purges in Army and industry; perhaps a financial purge was next...
Left. By the late Walter Edmund O'Hara, Rhode Island's once-wealthy race-track tsar, who bet on the ponies himself: $193.86 in Rhode Island, an undetermined amount in Massachusetts...
Even with all the improvement in Allison's output, however, it is still far short of the air-cooled horsepower top. Few weeks ago the Army hedged its liquid-cooled bet, put down $56,500,000, the biggest pursuit plane order in its history, for a brand-new plane, the Republic P-47, built around Pratt & Whitney's 2,000-horsepower air-cooled engine. Souped up by a brand-new and secret supercharger, P47 may well be the fastest, highest-riding pursuit plane in the world, with a fighting ceiling above 35,000 feet, a top speed well...