Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carpet bagger" born in Ohio, raised in Kansas, he snapped back: "Sure. I moved to Texas 15 years ago . . . because I like Texas and want to live here." Awestruck observers predicted that if he did not get nominated by the required majority, Lee O'Daniel's vote total would be one of the two biggest and put him in the run-off primary. Meantime, Wilbert Lee O'Daniel said soberly: "I don't know whether or not I'll get elected, but, boy! it sure is good for the flour business...
...live in the Waziristan hills. Two years ago he gathered the tribesmen about him, began a revolt against Britain. Time & again scouting British airplanes have located the Fakir's hideouts and British troops have rushed to capture him. Each time he got away, has left behind a total of some 200 British officers and men killed, hundreds wounded...
...proud total, 350,000 Soviet tractors rumbling out over Russian harvest fields, was announced by Moscow last week as Communists were summoned at the double to win for Joseph Stalin a spectacular, unexpected "battle of the grain." Russia's potent Five-Year-Plan chiefs reckoned without a sudden heat wave which shot thermometers up to phenomenal highs all over the southern Soviet provinces. Result: winter and spring grain ripened simultaneously instead of one after the other, the harvest rush was doubled. Plan chiefs believed, however, that they had the situation well in hand, predicted that this year it will...
Religious and devotional programs, gen erally considered more a public service than a commercial aspect of radio, were given proportionately more time by commercial sponsors than by the stations as sustainers. Sponsors bought 34.55% of radio's total time, of that gave 5.75% to religion. Religious programs ran only 4.8% of total sustaining time (5.15% of total broadcasting time...
Percentages of total time devoted to the other six types of program...