Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More fortunate were Joseph Bosco and Percy Wells, middle-aged railroad workers, whose $150,000 prize was intact because they had refused an offer of $15,000 for the ticket before the race...
Procedure of the draw is simple. For every ticket sold, at $2.50 each, a stub with the buyer's name and address goes to Dublin. The stubs are churned together in a large drum. In another, smaller drum are churned slips of paper on which are written the names of the horses entered in the race. Of the money paid in to the lottery, about 60% goes for prizes. The prize money is divided into units of $500,000. For each unit one ticket-holder's name is drawn from the big drum simultaneously with the drawing...
...rest of the world. The drawing itself is naturally a Dublin shindig. Last week, as usual, the hall in the Lord Mayor's man sion was appropriately decorated, this time to represent "That Drawn-the-Favorite Feeling," with a stage set representing a Castle of Dreams. When the tickets had been drawn, by Ireland's prettiest young nurses, it was found that, also as usual, a minute proportion of the winners lived in Ireland. Exactly one more than half of all the holders of prizewinning tickets lived in the U. S. Of U. S. ticket holders, half lived...
...York. To buy a ticket in a lottery which pays only 60? on the dollar exhibits strikingly bad judgment. Consequently, an overwhelming majority of SWEEPSTAKES WINNERS BEHRENS . . . most convivial...
...Greater New York's four $150,000 winners last week, most erudite was a 38-year-old, $2,400-a-year City College psychology instructor named Walter Vogt, whose ticket was signed "Alpha Omega." When reporters arrived to congratulate him on his good fortune, Psychologist Vogt ran upstairs, crawled out on a fire escape, announced he was going for a nickel ride on the subway. Most elusive winner was Betty Fitzgerald, switchboard operator for an importing company whose telephone service was disrupted by reporters whom Operator Fitzgerald refused to see in person. Shaggiest winners were a Mr. & Mrs. John...