Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down on Canton in almost daily raids. To Canton's symphony of stenches was added another last week-that of dead, decaying flesh, intensified by sweltering heat. Rescue workers, handkerchiefs over their nostrils, scrabbled in the ruins to drag out the injured, could give no account of the total casualties. "The city is like an open grave in which the living and dead are mixed inextricably," cabled one harried United Pressman. Lowest estimates put the number of dead at over 3,000, the injured...
When Austria was taken over by Germany three months ago the little nation owed a total of $400,000,000 in foreign debts. No one seriously expected Germany to continue payments on these and last week, when the first interest payments after the anschluss came due, Germany defaulted on three Austrian foreign loans totaling $230,000,000 which were largely held in the U. S., Great Britain, France...
Ever since the 16th-Century Florentines first evolved it (under the impression that they were re-creating the Greek tragedy), opera has been to Italians what cinema is to the U. S. public. Nearly every theme in literature has been through the operatic chutes. A total list of the operas written by Italians during the past four centuries would run well into the tens of thousands...
...Guldahl: the U. S. Open golf championship; defeating 164 of the country's top-notch amateurs and professionals; for the second year in a row; coming from behind in the last round with an astonishing sub-par 69 while the leaders were cracking all around him; for a total of 284, six strokes better than second-place Dick Metz of Chicago; over the ribbon-fairwayed Cherry Hills course, one mile above sea level; at Denver. Champion Guldahl, who was glad to get an odd job as a carpenter two years ago, broke the all-time U. S. Open record...
...Rockies, as shown last week by the F. W. Dodge reports, topped both April and March levels. Though this could logically be laid to the weather, it was noteworthy that engineering contracts of $45,250,000 were 27% above the same week of 1937, shoving the 1938 total to date 7% ahead of last year...