Word: betting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oversimple, irrevocable decision of action, the courses open to them were few-and all dangerous. They included: 1) a new major campaign in China, 2) a southward drive, 3) a jackal attack on the rear of the Soviet Union while Germany drains Russian strength in the west. Best bet...
...employes frantically packed, burned and destroyed their documents. Deadline for some 300 Nazis to vacate their offices was July 10 ; for 105 Italians, July 15. How they would be sent home had not yet been announced, but they would probably be loaded on ships, guaranteed safe passage. A good bet was that they would not be permitted to shove off until U.S. citizens on the other side of the Atlantic had done likewise...
...ancient banking principle (nowhere more grimly adhered to than in Switzerland) that bankers don't tell on their clients. The fact remains that many business transactions that look Nazi from the U.S. side, wind up in a dead end somewhere in Switzerland. It is a safe bet that Switzerland, willingly or not, has been acting as Germany's banker since the war began, as she did before...
...even those who considered the bill a dangerously blank check did not worry about Jesse Jones's cashing it. Congress had learned to trust him. Said Hamilton Fish: "I believe that this fund is in safe hands when placed at the disposal of Jesse Jones. ... I would bet on Jesse Jones to outguess and outbargain Hitler, Mussolini. ..." The House passed the bill (218-to-116), sent it on to conference, where no trouble is expected...
...What about money?" asked James. "Oh, I've got plenty," said Tooks, who in two years had saved $1,000 out of his $1,350 salary. Stunned, James gave him $50 for color films anyway. As Tooks left, James bet a staff-member they would never see him alive again...