Word: betting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Consulate in that increasingly important port. Reports from China said that no less than 3,000 trucks were negotiating the trans-Mongolian route. It was a safe bet that a good many of that 3,000 were "fleshy trucks" of the Orient: mules, donkeys, camels, horses and men of burden...
Fortnight ago, for reasons that no one seemed able to make plain to laymen, the Army laid out another $69,000,000 contract for Allison engines. The Army thus raised its bet on an apparently underpowered engine (and planes designed for it) to $159,500,000. And the Army also had $62.448,000 out in orders for Rolls-Royce Merlins (to be built by Packard...
Last week educators, sociologists and physicians met in Chicago and learnedly discussed The Family in Wartime. The delegates were not prepared to bet a plugged nickel on the family's immediate prospects. Already, declared Professor Willard Waller of Columbia University, although the U. S. was not at war, the national-defense program had begun to raise hell with U. S. families. He ticked off wartime dangers: > Disruption of relations between parents and children...
...twelvemonth just past, U. S. citizens legally bet $408,528,000 on the horses. That was $117,000,000 more than they bet in 1939. Bets placed illegally with bookmakers amounted to an unknown sum. What might the figure be this coming year, with "defense" money bulging railbirds' pockets? Race-track owners last week rubbed their palms...
Foxy, balding Senator Pat Harrison lost $14 at bridge to a Columbia Broadcasting System official, then bet him $15 to $10 that the Chicago Bears would trim the Washington Redskin footballers-and a further dollar-a-point on the score. Next day he took his cocky pal to the field, gloated as the Bears rioted to a 73-to-0 victory, earned him $83 at the rate of $1.38 for every minute of play...