Word: pari
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...OWMR Boss Jimmy Byrnes suddenly ordered all horse and dog tracks (horse tracks alone handled a record-breaking $1,126,308,645 in pari-mutuel receipts this year) to shut up tight by January 3 and remain shut "until war conditions permit." He also threw a blunt question at Selective Service: what about all those 4-F professional athletes between the ages of 18 and 26? "They proved to thousands by their great physical feats upon the football or baseball field that they are as physically fit ... as are the 11,000,000 men in uniform...
Payoff. At Long Island's Belmont Park. Harold Holberg tried his best to bet $100 on the No. 3 horse in the eighth race, angrily protested when he received tickets on No. 4 from the pari-mutuel clerk, who refused to change them; when No. 3 finished first, Holberg took the case to court, finally...
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...
...Miami's Tropical Park on New Year's Day morning 10,900 racegoers-tourists, servicemen and shipyard workers on their way home from the night shift-shoved $453,103 at the clerks behind the pari-mutuel windows-twice as much as they bet last New Year's Day. Many of them drove their cars to the track, though the gasoline shortage in Florida is so acute that big trucks operated by the Overseas Transportation Co. to carry food to isolated Key West are unable to get enough gas to keep to their schedules. That afternoon...
...wooden stands are rundown, the stables scarred by bombs, the infield dug up for victory gardens. There are 14 trotting races, for purses ranging up to 1,000 rubles ($500). Like their brethren at Saratoga or New Orleans' Fair Grounds, the Moscow fans place their bets at pari-mutuel windows. The bets are two, five or 100 rubles...