Word: betting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long John has plenty to show. His salary - salary-from Stiers Bros. Construction Co. of St. Louis - tops $36,000 a year, four to six times the pay of most tunnel superintendents. He also has a collection of hats-all won by breaking records. When he won his last bet, an opera hat, he blurted: "What the hell does anyone my height do with a high silk...
Kaltenborn and his colleagues usually have to go on the air without enough time to reflect, weigh, or wait for more information. Kaltenborn himself predicted that Hitler would not come into power. A few hours before the Wehrmacht smashed into Poland, he still thought that negotiation was a good bet. His expressed views on labor have often been tendentious and shallow in perspective...
...Broadway show, produced with pre-Pearl Harbor opulence and making up in snap and lure for what it lacks in style and wit. The girls are beautiful, the costumes bright, the dancing fast & furious. Though "Fats" Waller's score provides no new Honeysuckle Rose and, in general, is bet ter danced than sung, it is pleasantly satisfying. The Ladies Who Sing With a Band is a gay spoof of female mike-blasters, This Is So Nice is a likeable ditty, There's a Man in My Life, a warming love song, and Hi-De-Ho-High is good...
...Suburban Day at Belmont, New York racing fans wagered $2,699,153, a world's record. On Belmont Day, they bet only $1,731,155. One reason: Count Fleet went to the post at odds of about 1-to-200. To pay off the legal pari-mutuel minimum of 1-to-20 ($2.10 for $2), the track had to shell...
...Arthur said: ''It may take a year. It may take two, but for the Herrenvolk the writing is on the wall." The bet now is that if he and his American friends are given the promised planes and men, it may take them another seven months...