Word: paris
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the physical set-up arranged, the possibilities become almost unlimited. Twenty years after the installation of the "Memorial Fronton," there would be an Ivy Jai-Alai League, a flourishing Basque Research Center in the department of Romance Languages and Literature, a course in Pari-Mutuel betting, and a huge increase in the University's endowment...
...that is needed would be a few tons of reinforced concrete constructed in the form of flying buttresses on three walls to support the terrific impact of the pelota, and a neon sign erected over the middle portal to advertise the pari-mutuel windows...
...former owner, under another name, of $336,800 in Yonkers stock. Mrs. Jeanne Weiss, daughter of the late Democratic Leader Irving Steingut, paid $250 for Yonkers stock later valued at $45,000. James J. Dunnigan, son of a onetime Democratic state senator who co-authored the New York pari-mutuel gambling law, bought control of the Buffalo Raceway on a loan, put his father on the payroll for a seven-year total of $182,816. James himself, and other members of his family, did even better, clearing $511,000 within a ten-year period...
...million building program, to include a new mental hospital and a medical school for the University of Florida, was started. McCarty's proudest achievement, however, was in pushing past the agonized yelps of the dog-track lobby a bill which increased the state's share from pari-mutuel betting...
Horseplayers not only had the usual range of choices at pari-mutuel windows last week, they were also watching an unscheduled race between a couple of jockeys, Willie Shoemaker and Joe Culmone. At California's Hollywood Park the money was on Willie; at Maryland tracks it was on Culmone. At week's end both jockeys had broken or tied Johnny Longden's modern (1948) record of riding 319 winners in one year,-* and Willie, with 326, was seven ahead...