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Great Britain has a new No. 1 wartime sport: dog racing. This was attested last week by no less an authority than the Churches' Committee on Gambling. With a grave face, the Committee reported that Britons had bet $188 million at totalizators (pari-mutuels) at greyhound tracks...
...dogs. Even in winter, 200,000 Londoners throng 19 nearby tracks. Tubes and trolley busses to Wembley, Wimbledon and White City are packed with clerks, Indian students, Irish laborers, barristers and housewives, all conning racing reports in early editions of the Star and fresh tips in the daily Greyhound Express...
...England has gone completely helicopter-happy. Last week the Boston, Worcester and New York Street Railway Co. (Massachusetts bus line) applied to CAB for a postwar helicopter service. Others who plan to blanket New England with helicopter service-Northeast Airlines, Greyhound Corp., Vermont Transit, White Circle Bus, the Checker Taxi Co. of Boston, and famed merchants William Filene's Sons...
Daley once admired Con the Greyhound for giving the wind a head start and then beating it, and Shaun the Bullock, who could hold himself out at arm's length. But Finn was faster than one, stronger and defter than the other. Concluded Daley: "Bad cess to those who doubt...
With the sea lanes to southern Alaskan ports open the year round, the southern half of The Road may not see much through traffic. Greyhound busses, operated for the Northwest Service Command, now run the thousand miles from Dawson Creek to Whitehorse, average 22 m.p.h. Trucks will continue to supply the big airport at Watson Lake, even with the pipeline punched through from Whitehorse-location of the refinery for oil from Norman Wells (TIME, Oct. 4). But no postwar commercial or tourist development now in sight will justify maintenance of this stretch of The Road...