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...Tanana ice-jam began moving, drawing the wire taut. At 8:04 p. m. May 12 the trigger was tripped, the clock stopped, making Mervin E. Anderson, 31-year-old Fairbanks bus driver, whose guess of 8:02 p. m. was nearest correct, some $75,000 richer. Day before Guesser Anderson split with another guesser the $3,500 first prize in another similar pool based on the movement of ice in the Chena River at Fairbanks...
...Night before the decision such a good guesser as Walter Winchell had predicted acquittal in his broadcast...
...over some two billion dollars worth of firms and securities owned by Germans and Austrians, most of which have now either been returned to their owners or dissipated by mismanagement and peculation. ¶ At "street fair" given by the National Women's Press Guild, Daniel Krassner, circus weight guesser, was suddenly confronted by the First Lady of the Land. "This little lady-" he stammered, "she weighs-er-155 Ib." Mrs. Roosevelt then sat on a swinging scale which registered 145 Ib. Guesser Daniel gave her a cane as forfeit...
Died. John F. Barrett, 73, longtime Chicago grain trader, member of the Chicago Board of Trade since 1881; in Chicago. He was famed as a weather guesser, basing his guesses on the direction of the prevailing winds on the Catholic prayer & fast days before each solstice & equinox (ember-days). He bet the temperature would not go to zero between Dec. 20, 1930 and March 1, 1931, collected $1,250 from fellow Board members...
...units prosper most, Transcontinental Oil Co. has had a varied career. Less familiar is it to stock-traders for its record of deficits in five of the last ten years than for its stock's puzzling ups & downs. Many a broker has warned: "The way of the Trans-guesser is hard." But lately Transcontinental had done better, its first-quarter earnings showing a 100% gain over last year's. Credit for this is due to Amos L. Beaty who resigned as chairman of Texas Corp. last year to take the same position with Transcontinental...