Word: payoff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There they discovered that they were the only holders of the winning combination, were handed a check for $6,754.50 for their $2 investment. Reporters quickly realized that only one parimutuel payoff in U. S. turf history had been larger: $7,205 won by a Jersey City truck driver at Miami's Tropical Park three years...
...from 000 to 999 and place a bet from 1? to $5 or more (most bets are only a few cents) that the same figures will appear in some daily public statistic (e.g., daily bank clearances). Because the odds against the better are 1,000-to-1 and the payoff, minus commissions, is only 540-to-1, numbers is highly profitable to its bankers and collectors. When Dutch Schultz turned his energies from beer-running to numbers, he organized it along military lines with bet collectors at the bottom, controllers who tabulated their slips, bankers who hired the controllers...
...good horse-racing story. Keeping the conventions intact, Bright Mark came in first. What the man who rejected the five tickets did is not a matter of record. Lonnie Gray stoically continued selling tickets. When his work was done, he leaped out of his cage, went over to the payoff windows, collected...
...insured "patient"' violent exercises, purges and doses of digitalis. When they achieve a plausible specimen of exhaustion and palpitation, they get his condition on record by hospitalizing him under a conspiring physician's care. Cardiograms, sphygmomanometer readings, charts and reports pile up the evidence. Then comes the payoff: the certification of a reputable heart specialist, called in to examine the patient for myocarditis, a heart condition which disables the victim to his dying...
...support of the Asociación National de Acreedores del Estado, organized and fostered by him, composed of some 75,000 native creditors of the Cuban state-chiefly veterans, civil servants, teachers, small bondholders. The Asociación could be counted on to oppose any Chase payoff before their claims were met. At the week's end, the Chase faced a further barrage from North Dakota's Senator Gerald Nye, who was angry because his SEC-authorized committee of Cuban bondholders in the U. S. had not been invited to appear before the new Commission...