Word: pari
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the past year $517,382,107 were bet in the pari-mutuels at U.S. race tracks -$100,000,000 more than the national handle in 1940. Recalling that horse racing boomed during World War I, U.S. turfmen last week wondered what to expect in 1942, watched with fingers crossed the opening week at Miami's Tropical Park...
...Straus, a onetime General Electric engineer, invented the American totalisator, an electrical device whose 1,500,000 moving parts automatically calculate and indicate the odds in pari-mutuel betting. The Munns backed him when he started to manufacture the contraption a decade ago. Their American Totalisator Co. collects a royalty on every bet made at the 45 U.S. race tracks that use its "tote...
...Erickson and underworldly Owney Madden, who had suddenly been branded "undesirable" by the Florida State 'Racing Commission), Mr. Straus and the Munns had misgivings over the soundness of their venture. The Florida Legislature, seeking to raise $2,000,000 for old-age pensions, voted to increase its 1942 pari-mutuel "take" from 3% to 8%. The track's share remained...
Around southern Paraguay it is said that Tupá Mbaé cures gall stones with apeterebi, dysentery with anambai-guazú, internal hemorrhage with guabiyu-miru, hemophilia with caa pari miri, boils with ananga piri, syphilis with the poisonous milk of curupi-cay, many other afflictions with other local flora. Thousands of his patients have, beyond doubt, got well. Many orthodox physicians think that Tupá Mbaé has had something to do with it. The forests of southern Paraguay contain a rich pharmacopaeia which would bear looking into...
...days the Daily Double payoffs (a separate pool calculated like any other pari-mutuel payoff) were puny. Then on the third day 31 punters, lucky enough to have tickets on War Melody and Early Settler, got $881.70 apiece for their $2 investment.* Said Belmont's Pari-Mutuel Manager Mort Mahony: "So far none of Belmont's bettors have been extravagant...