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...Dettmer was immediately suspended. But last week he was back at work again. The bureau reported, in tones of some admiration, that Dettmer actually did have a slightly unusual system: betting third-money choices at harness tracks to win and place. Rigid investigation disclosed that he had won every nickel of the extra money fair & square in legal parimutuel bets, had duly reported his winnings on his own tax return...
...bicycle manufacturer, for instance, is strictly limited in the amount of nickel he may use. Japanese manufacturers may use all they can buy. Japanese businessmen have plunged into a spree of lavish (and tax free) expense-account entertainment, bigger and shinier foreign cars, extravagant nightclubs and pleasure palaces. The sight of an oxcart stopped beside a Cadillac or a Jaguar is no novelty in downtown Tokyo. In this spendthrift, neon-lighted economic chaos, gangsters, blackmarketeers and slick operators-U.S., Chinese and Korean as well as Japanese-wax fat and prosperous. More & more worried Japanese are aware that the imperial...
...basis, and its preferred stock would be making marked progress in the payment of accumulated dividends, and the common stock [now traded over the counter at around $5] would be selling from $50 to $100 a share." Young said he had done it before. In the case of the Nickel Plate Railroad he took over when its first-mortgage bonds were selling below 30, its common stock at $7. Nickel Plate bonds which replaced the old issue are now around 90, its common stock had sold above $200 before it was split 5 for 1. With MoPac, said Young...
...nickel's worth of jukebox tune, which runs about 2¼ minutes, costs 2.2? a minute, he calculated. Buffalo's ten-concert season costs (at two hours for each concert) a little more than half a cent a minute. Black's conclusion: the jukebox player pays about four times as much for his scratchy grind music as he would for live symphonic music. And that is not all, reported Black. If the orchestra, like a jukebox, should stop playing every 2¼ minutes, "the student would have to make 53 trips to the podium during the symphony...
Other stars that Walker "persuaded" to go to Yale included Jim Fuchs world champion shot-putter, 1950 football captain Brad Quackenbush and lettermen Jack Lohnes, Jim Rowe, and Bob Parcella. "I've sent boys there from all over the country," Walker says, "and I don't get a nickel for it, either...