Word: stakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their discoveries and misapplied them to the conquest and murder of man. The first man who discovered that fire could be made by twirling sticks or striking flints was, in a sense, a scientist. It was not his fault that fire was later used to burn people at the stake...
...stake in all these calculations is only a fraction of U. S. business. In 1937 the U. S. exported 7.8% of its production of movable goods; in 1938 (when domestic production was down) 9%; this year it is probably running around 8%. In dollars it amounts to about $3,000,000,000 of business-about two-thirds as much as before Depression...
...just a breeze. Peter Astra finished the first heat* three lengths in front of second-place Gauntlet. The second heat was even more one-sided. Starting from the pole position because of his victory in the first heat, Peter Astra won by five lengths, took the Hambletonian Stake in two straight heats...
...owned and run by Anthony ("Tony") Cornero Stralla, 47, California's paramount rumrunner in Prohibition days.* Short and stocky, square shooting by his own code, Tony is well-known around Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, where he lives in a modest bungalow. He loves high-stake gambling himself, against big shots like Nick the Greek or syndicates of movie tycoons who set out to "take...
World War I proved it. In 1914 many nations refused to stake their political fate in the quarrel between the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance. But one & all-Switzerland, the Scandinavian countries, Holland, Spain and notably the U. S.-found their economic destiny involved. For World War I profoundly altered every important economy in two hemispheres...