Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preceding chapters, has found his spirit saddened, his eyes closing, his head nodding. To maintain even its present inadequate housing level, the U. S. needs 525,000 new housing units a year for ten years. Under present conditions, the nation has no chance whatever of reaching this total...
...Dutch airports, especially those along the Channel which might serve any power coming to The Netherlands' rescue. The Dutch Air Force contains not more than 300 planes, two-thirds of them old, though the pilots are heady and capable. Anti-aircraft defense is weak. Ground troops total less than 100,000 trained men, with 280,000 green reserves. So long as she did not tackle Belgium's Albert Canal and "Little Maginot" lines, and unless Belgium moved fast indeed to meet her in The Netherlands, Germany should have little trouble slicing through the smallest neutral to the Channel...
...Best Plays. One of them (You Can't Take It With You) had the fifth longest run (837 performances) in the history of Broadway; 14 others ran close to 200 performances or better. Two won the Pulitzer Prize. Twenty were sold to the movies for a total of over $1,500,000. Further, Kaufman ranks as one of the best directors in show business, and off the stage as well as on, as one of Manhattan's greatest wits. Once, just for the hell of it, he wrote a play all by himself-and that...
...total of 969 students expressed themselves as dissatisfied with the present football situation, while 166 voted to leave it alone. 859 students favored subsidization of players if they could meet the scholastic standards of the University; 277 disapproved...
...should the Olympics be held at Helsinki next summer. Reviewing the 1939 track year, the A. A. U. took the top six performances in each of 20 events, tabulated them (on a point system, of 10-5-4-3-2-1), and concluded that the U. S. -with a total of 209 3/10 points-still has the best track & field athletes in the world. Ranking second was Finland, with 108 points-34 points better than third-place Germany, 94 better than sixth-place Britain...