Word: betting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going to ask that usual, redundant question of how many letters TIME has received from indignant Marines pointing out this mistake, but I'll bet a three-day pass to an ice-cream cone that the mails from Labrador, Tripoli, Munson, Harlan County, Ky. and other far corners of the globe are just a little heavier this week...
...troubled Africa, a 50-50 bet for the future is the Gold Coast, a British dependency the size of Wyoming, scooped out of the continent's equatorial west. Since last year the Gold Coast has had 1) a written constitution, 2) a Legislative Assembly of 75 elected Negroes and nine whites, 3) a Negro Prime Minister, the first in any British colony, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Dr. Nkrumah disturbs some people in Downing Street, since he is a Marxian-Socialist who got his schooling at Pennsylvania's all-Negro Lincoln University...
Venus has an atmosphere that is mostly carbon dioxide and is always blanketed in brilliant white clouds. Most astronomers think its hidden surface is too hot to support the "carbon-cycle" life that exists on the earth. Mars is the best bet, but it is not too promising. U.S. Astronomer Percival Lowell, who died in 1916, spent 30 years studying the "canals" on Mars. He was convinced (and convinced a large public) that they were attempts by Martians to irrigate their arid planet with water from its polar snowcaps. Modern astronomers believe that Lowell was describing more than meets science...
...calls we got and these slips and envelopes we picked up, they must do around $50,000 a month. That's on the horses, a lottery racket, and some other numbers rackets. Hell, we got calls from all over. Some guy out in Milton wanted to lay a $50 bet on a horse...
Thus, when the Depression hit, Amerada had an additional $9,000,000 in cash in its treasury, was able to start exploration and drilling in a number of new areas while others pulled in their drills. With so big a stake to bet, Jacobsen was able to take bigger & bigger risks, and, as he says, "We were lucky." But other companies that had the benefit of the same geophysical methods found little but dry holes. Amerada's greatest luck seemed to be the fact that it had Jacobsen. Amerada's net profit rose from...