Word: payoff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Payoff on Month I of World War II: some plunged in Beth Steel at $go-to-$100, hedged by picking up German Government dollar bonds (which went unnoticed from $5 to $9) on chances that they might go to $25 (netting 400%) if Hitler should happen to get his peace...
...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...
With his income from racing tipster sheets and a national leased wire service that furnished odds and payoff prices, Moe Annenberg branched out. He began publishing Radio Guide, Screen Guide, Official Detective Stories, Click. Three years ago he bought the respectable old Inquirer, and since then he has shown more & more reticence about his activities on the other side of the tracks. He has played the public-spirited publisher in Philadelphia by declaring the Inquirer's political independence, the honest-minded publisher by printing the news of his tax troubles on the front page...
FOUR FRIGHTENED WOMEN - George Harmon Coxe-Knopf ($2). News Photographer Kent Murdock gets seriously involved with the murder of a comic actor's exwife. Two more murders and a kidnapping before the payoff...
...safety campaign has thus far achieved a 21% saving in sudden death. Safest State has been Pennsylvania, with a 40% reduction; least improved, Maine, by one percent. Right in step with the national trend is New York, 20% safer. Last week for New York motorists there came a payoff. Available for safe drivers were reductions of as much as 15% in basic automobile liability insurance rates. Lowest rate was for Class A motorists, those who in the first 21 months of the last two years had no accidents, or one involving only property damage. In Manhattan, where the annual premium...