Word: betting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concluded, G.M. believes so firmly in this new, star-spangled statistic that it is ready to back it with a cool $500 million of new investment in reconversion and expansion. Since business confidence is so much a matter of follow-the-leader, G.M.'s $500 million bet on the postwar world, represented first-rate psychological warfare for full employment...
...particularly unpleasant stretch of sub-operatic Africorn about the walls of Jericho. Eleanor Powell, who is the best female tap dancer on tap, proves it in a rope dance, a modified hula and a rampant straight number on a milk-white stage battleship. But Red Skelton is the best bet...
...bet your detector the Navy phone rings...
...seek invitations to dances and capers. At such times as these, you can bet Beacon Hill...
...four-ounce-glove fight-and Crosby-lasted 77 rounds, five hours and five minutes.* The winner was a St. Louis printer named Harry Sharpe, whose rewards were 1) the Missouri lightweight championship, 2) a side bet of $500, 3) eleven months in jail for violating an anti-prizefight law. (Crosby was let off.) Both men had trained so well they were still slugging in the 76th round, when they knocked each other down simultaneously. Crosby banged his head and got up dazed. Sharpe put him down for the count a few minutes later...