Word: betting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rule of trade at RCA Victor and Columbia that the U.S. record-buying public wants more full-length grand opera. Three years ago, a 36-year-old New Yorker named Dario Soria bet a small bankroll on the same proposition-and is now the No. 1 impresario of recorded opera...
During World War II, Solar manufactured $90 million worth of manifolds and engine parts. But like many another war baby, it almost died at war's end. In 1947 it had a $555,867 deficit. Price, who still tinkers with old clocks and gadgets in his home, bet all his money on jets, plowed every cent he could into research...
...Professional Touch. In Kollum, The Netherlands, after judges at a jumping contest for horses had disqualified all entrants because of their poor showing, Veterinarian Jan Reinders bet the judges he could do better, went the full course under his own power and won his bet...
...good bet that nobody would be dragged before a "jury of twelve men and twelve women." But it was just as clear that in a fight with a man wearing brass knuckles, a glancing blow was worse than no blow...
...addition to his $100 bet, David Jones collected a $5,000 reward from Secretary Magsaysay. But despite his. triumphs, Jones had no intention of making espionage his career. "I'm no cloak & dagger man," he said. "I'm going back home and stick to radio...