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Word: pari (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that obstructed the spectators' view, and inaugurated the Pimlico Special to determine the Horse of the Year. Last week Turfman Vanderbilt's main problem was: how to make elegant Belmont popular with inelegant New York racing fans (potentially increased for 1940 because of the recent legalization of pari-mutuel betting at New York tracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Deal | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...hours later Claude Elkins felt "sort of cold and sticky all over." In his hand was a telegram informing him that he was the only ticket holder of the winning combination, that he had won the whole pool of $10,772.40-largest pari-mutuel payoff in the history of U. S. horse racing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Peewee Punter | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Long before the Civil War there was horse racing in New Jersey. In the 1880s Jersey's Monmouth Park, with its imported British bookmaking system as well as new-fangled pari-mutuel betting machines, was the rendezvous for New York's fashionable "400." But the citizens of New Jersey in 1897 decided that gambling was a menace, outlawed it, killed racing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: For Relief | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Last week a new generation of Jersey voters, following in the footsteps of 21 other U. S. States which have recently grasped at gambling as a source of revenue, decided to revive horse racing, voted to legalize pari-mutuel betting in their State. Taxes on the pari-mutuel take at four proposed tracks (probable sites: Camden, Atlantic City, Asbury Park and a spot near the Jersey end of the George Washington Bridge, just across the river from New York City) will add $5,000,000 a year for State Relief, avert a threatened State income tax (which Jerseyites have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: For Relief | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...poolroom bookmaking and other away-from-the-track horse-race betting. Taxation on California's handbook betting (which is not limited to California tracks) will net the State $20,000,000 a year, its proponents say, in addition to the $2,500,000 the State now receives from pari-mutuel wagering at its five tracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: For Relief | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

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