Word: betting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator: John Bricker, governor for six years and Senator for six, is-at this point-the surest bet in the Ohio election. His Democratic opponent is a somewhat slimmed Michael V. Di Salle (writers can no longer call him squash-shaped, says Di Salle, because he has lost 30 Ibs.). Di Salle is not well known in his home state, despite his three years as mayor of Toledo and his 14 months as U.S. price administrator in Washington. Di Salle is using the talkathon, the marathon radio question-answering technique, which has been remarkably effective in some states...
...Washington, came back with the full transcript of Gilbert's secret testimony, but kept mum on how he got it. Next day the Sun-Times splashed the testimony all over the paper. Gilbert had told the committee that he had made his money while a cop because he "bet on elections . . . bet on football games . . . bet on prizefights . . . [and in fact] I have been a gambler at heart." The Kefauver Committee complained bitterly about the printing of the testimony, but the Sun-Times replied that it had published it in the public interest...
...peak, Northrop had 10,000 employees, turned out $280 million worth of planes and parts, including 1,000 of his P-61 Black Widow night fighters. Like many another builder, Northrop also lost millions on postwar ventures into nonaircraft projects (among Northrop's bad bets: motor scooters and calculating machines). He also bet on a three-engine transport plane and his long cherished Flying Wing. The transport was behind its time, the Flying Wing ahead of it. The Government, which had staked both to $80 million worth of postwar orders, canceled them, left Northrop floundering...
...Lahey filed, from Montreal, a story that Taft would not campaign for Ike unless: 1) Ike promises that certain unnamed Taftmen will be considered for jobs in the new Administration; 2) Ike promises that certain unnamed Ikemen will not be made Secretary of State ("It's a safe bet," wrote Lahey, "that one of them is Governor Dewey"); 3) Ike will not "repudiate" the Taft-Hartley law even by indirection; 4) Ike will conduct his campaign more like what Taft calls an authentic Republican...
...Tomlinson, general overseer of the Church of God; for Vice President, Bishop Willie I. Bass, North Carolina overseer of the church. Tomlinson and Bass, who favor righteousness and peace, hope to get on the ballot in 30 states, but admit that New York looks like the only sure bet. They plan to stage a five-day peace conference this month at Childersburg, Ala., the feature of which will be the beating of swords into plowshares. From a blacksmith, Bishop Tomlinson recently took lessons in sword-into-plowshare-beating and has been practising the art regularly in his Queens Village...