Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...residence to his San Simeon estate. Though he issued no detailed explanation of his return to native soil, the inference was that California would now be less expensive for him and his heirs than New York. For Assessor Hollister he listed $1,366,300.25 in "solvent credits," bringing his total assessable properties in San Luis Obispo County to a modest...
Illustrative of the growth of espionage in France is the fact that in 1932 only 16 spies were caught, that in 1934 a total of 95, 84 of them foreigners, were caught. During 1937 the number jumped to 150 for the Strasbourg area in Alsace alone and this year an average of nearly four spies a week, mainly German and Italian, have been detected near France's famed Maginot Line...
...Compton prefers this explanation for another reason. If the cosmic particles were thought to come from outside the Milky Way, it must be presumed that all space is filled with them, that they represent a vaster total of energy than star light - in fact, the greater part of the energy of the universe. If they are of Milky Way origin, however, their intensity is reasonably set down as an effect of "local" concentration...
Died. Caroline Poulder King, 88, last surviving widow of a veteran of the War of 1812 (Private Darius King who served 54 days); in Cheektowaga, N. Y. She married King, then 73, in 1869, drew $14,149 pension (total 1812 War pensions: $43,216,480.57) after he died 17 years later...
...early years of the steel industry was that every price pool ended in price chaos. Then along came a gentleman who also carried a big stick-stern Judge Gary of U. S. Steel Corp. Since Big Steel at the turn of the Century had 65% of the total ingot-steel capacity, Judge Gary could easily knock into line any other company which disregarded his price policy. But open price-fixing was illegal, so Judge Gary would give dinners for all the steelmasters; somehow, when the demitasse came round, everyone knew what to charge for steel. In 1911, when the Government...