Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrangement of some of the events is a bit peculiar. Three men run the shuttle hurdles rather than the customary four. And in the field events the scoring of each event is based upon a total team scoring. Each House must enter three men in a field event...
...After these "token withdrawals," commissioners dispatched by the Non-intervention Committee shall ascertain with fair accuracy the numbers of interventionists, this with a view to the ultimate withdrawal of all in "progressive and proportional" stages; 3) When the Nonintervention Committee finds these large-scale withdrawals have reached a "substantial" total, the Great Powers are to grant full belligerent rights to the Rightist Government and to the Leftist Government...
...agents posted throughout the country, watching for just such pharmaceutical accidents. Those men last week confiscated every last flask of the Massengill "elixir" upon which they could lay their hands. A Federal agent at Bristol said to Chief Campbell: "The most amazing thing about the company was the total lack of testing facilities. Apparently they just throw drugs together, and if they don't explode they are placed on sale." Dr. Massengill cooperated with the Food & Drug men by sending warning telegrams to all his sulfanilamide customers...
...repair shops. Ford and Chevrolet each have 10,000 dealers; Chrysler, Plymouth, De Soto and Dodge together have 8,000 distributors & dealers; Buick 3,000. Ninety-seven percent of U. S. towns cannot be worked by a dealer with profit, and 3,627 towns produce 85% of total sales. Cities, ranked by size, are the richest territoric:, A dealer usually sells two used cars for every new me, for more than half of U. S. motorists have never owned a new car. U. S. sales last year equaled 4,016,000 new cars and trucks, 6,590,000 used ones...
...Starting out as such, a prospective dealer would have to show Buick, before he could get a contract, that he has $12,325, or $145 per car, in cash, a building owned or rented, a sales force, a service staff and a lot for used cars. Employes would total between twelve and 20. The used car lot is vital because when he has sold 85 new cars he will have received some 160 used cars as trade...