Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...behest of their Premier's able wife, Radiorating Mme Chiang Kaishek. To the many earmarks, minute or mighty, of this Great War last week Shanghai actuaries added finally a careful estimate that property damage there already exceeds $750,000,000. This is three times greater than the total of losses at Shanghai caused by Japan's attack there...
...shell, bursting by accident at the intersection of Peking and Szechuan Roads killed one Chinese, tore a limb from each of four. Together one bomb and one shell killed a total of 80 Chinese and on the river splinters of shrapnel fell like rain on the decks of Japanese, U. S. and other warships. Star shells shrieked up as the night deepened, searchlights stabbed and crisscrossed the blackness, feeling for bombers, and a young U. S. officer who had been out risking his neck to see what the bloody clinches of War are like, came back with the news...
...Berlin model workers' suburb of Tegelsee a four-room cottage with garden may be purchased by a German workman by paying $12.40 per month for a total of three years. In nearby apartment houses, not especially provided for workers by the Nazi regime, the monthly rent of a four-room flat...
...thousand miles of Autobahn (speed-limitless motor roads) have now been built by the Nazis, who continue to open more at the rate of 650 miles yearly, have projected a total of 4,500 miles...
...representatives of some 250 U. S. broadcasting stations promised both more money and more work for musicians who play directly over the radio. President Joseph N. Weber of the American Federation of Musicians had threatened a music strike if broadcasters did not hire enough new musicians to bring total expenditures for radio music from $1,500,000 to $5,000,000 a year (TIME, Aug. 9 et ante). As members of the National Association of Broadcasters, the 250 station representatives last week agreed in principle to President Weber's demands, offered to hire 3,000 more musicians than...