Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corp., headed by Jesse W. Tapp, also went into action. The Lend-Spend bill gave Mr. Tapp $50,000,000. On hand from previous appropriations he still had about $30,000,000. He revealed that in June, FSCC's beneficiaries had increased by 4,000,000 to a total of 11,000,000 persons receiving surplus farm products free. With his new money Mr. Tapp set out to buy & give even more generously...
Most surprising upset of the election was the showing of Dublin's Lord Mayor, Alfred Byrne, Fine Gael Party member. For 20 years dapper, little "Alf" has ruled the Dublin roost. Last week, his total poll barely gave him the third seat under proportional representation in Dublin's Northeast district as "Dev's" Minister for Posts & Telegraphs, Oscar Traynor, took the first, a Cosgravite the second...
...most important in the Guild's brief history. In 1937, it had 11,112 members in editorial departments. Today, the convention was told, the Guild has 16,797 members on its rolls, 13,505 in editorial departments and 3,292 in the newly acquired commercial department jurisdiction. Total number of U. S. editorial workers eligible for Guild membership is about 25,000. Since the last convention, the Guild conducted eleven strikes, more than in all its four previous years. About 450 strikers were involved, more than double the total ever on strike before. Of the eleven strikes, the Guild...
...reconsider its recent 6-to-5 decision against allowing a basic coach-passenger fare-increase from 2? to 2½? a mile. ICC also approved a reorganization plan of Spokane International Railway and Coeur d'Alene & Pend d'Oreille Railway calling for the merger of the two. Total trackage of these two roads is 161 miles, but the event was a milestone: the first ICC approval of a Class I reorganization since Section 77 of the Bankruptcy Law was extended to railroads...
...futures was started for hedging operations. Last week, Chicago's Mercantile Exchange, eyeing New York's success, started a hide futures market too. At the end of the first day Chicago's new market had handled $79,000 worth of business, precisely half the New York total...