Word: payoffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...numbers pools--otherwise known as the policy racket and nigger pool--probably involve more people in the Square than any other form of bookmaking. Almost every Boston paper publishes the payoff numbers...
...Overtime. In the Stanley Cup finals, the Rangers won three of the first five games. They needed just one more, but in the sixth game Detroit evened the series. In the payoff game this week, using careful passing plays, the Rangers built up a 2-0 lead, but they could not hold...
...motors of the V-25. They are smaller for the equivalent power, and they burn commercially pure alcohol instead of the alcohol mixed with 25% water that the Germans used to hold down the heat of combustion. The improvements, Dr. Porter believes, will show up in payload-the ultimate payoff of rocketry. G.E. does not say how many of its motors, if any, have yet been flown at White Sands Proving Ground...
Drift Wide. Then Novice McKenley displayed his inexperience in another payoff art of indoor running. Instead of drifting out and driving Fox wide on the boards, he hugged the rail and allowed Fox to slip by the easy way. Fox won and McKenley finished a weary fourth. But he had leaned into the turns perfectly, and Coach Gibson was satisfied...
...gross, Wayne is spreading himself so thin that he is behind schedule at Republic, RKO and Warner-each of which holds him under contract. One day last spring no fewer than nine first-run Los Angeles cine-mansions were showing John Wayne pictures. The payoff is handsome: Wayne averages more than $5,000 a week, gets 10% of the gross on films he makes for grateful little Republic...