Word: betting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tell your reviewer to check back, and I'll bet a complete set of Kipling against a 3? stamp he'll find it was the Ressaldar's prejudices - not those of the mess-that prevented their eating together...
...last word in international-style architecture. They drive bright-colored Cadillacs and set a fast pace at the country clubs. Bedecked with diamonds and keen to be seen, they jam the opera for performances at which tickets cost more than at New York's Met. They bet heavily at the races, and they have done a far better job than either the Reds or the Rockefellers in taming that old radical, Diego Rivera, by keeping him busy painting the portraits of their daughters...
...week's end German pollsters took a reading of the public pulse. Support for Der Alte's policies had increased, they reported, from a low of 31% in winter last year to a high of 53%. This week the betting was that, come Sept. 6, Germans will give Adenauer's Christian Democrats a clear though narrow edge over their nearest opponents, the Social Democrats. If the experts are right, his right-wing coalition is a good bet to win control of the Bundestag for another four years...
ANGLO-Iranian Oil Co., kicked out of Iran by Mossadegh (TIME, Oct. 8, 1951), now hopes to get back its stake there from the Shah, but is hedging the bet. A director, John Mellor Pattinson, has spent three weeks sniffing for new opportunities in oil-rich Alberta, has worked up plans for Anglo-Iranian's first venture in Canada. The company will also start drilling in Sicily shortly...
...level to 1951's record $322.9 million and a $16 million net after taxes. Last year sales dropped off slightly to $319 million, and higher break-even costs cut the net to $9,800,000. But President Holloway is banking on wonder metal titanium as his long-range bet to keep Crane expanding...