Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan, astute and cautious Prince Fumimaro Konoye, gave out that he was "suffering from insomnia." Actually he was conducting the difficult affairs of the Empire in a manner which afforded maximum protection from Japanese super-militarists, zealots of such stop-at-nothing kidney that they have murdered a total of three Premiers of Japan...
...pole-vault. Though President Pennington took the 100 and 220-yd. sprints handily and President Brown breezed to victory in the quarter mile, these three victories in the field > proved invaluable when Princeton-Cornell proceeded to win both the mile and two-mile runs to bring their total to five firsts. As at Cambridge fortnight ago, the outcome of the meet hung on the half-mile run and the feet of Arthur Godfrey Kilner Brown, combined team captain...
...least 2,000 galleryites set out with him after lunch, though the storm had reached its worst. Reginald Whitcombe was out in 39, they heard. Nursing every shot, Cotton reached the turn in 35, to learn that Whitcombe had straggled in with 76 for a total of 292. That left Cotton just 38 strokes to tie. His gallery trebled as, spurning waterproof clothes lest they bind his swing, the lithe, hawk-faced Cotton shot the first five holes of the final nine in four deliberate 45 and a 3, misputting only on the 18th for a 5. Needing only...
...stride with Otis by matching Otis' double-decker elevators in Manhattan's Cities Service Building with a system for running two elevators in the same shaft. But Otis' great advantage lies in its maintenance operations, which during Depression reputedly accounted for two-thirds of its total business...
...mission started last month to tabulate and release daily figures on odd-lot trading (less than loo-share lots), which makes up about one-fifth of all Stock Exchange transactions. Last week a full month of these figures provided solid data for experts in New York and Washington. Total buying orders for 2,934,843 shares with a value of $126,257.589 compared to total selling orders for 2,395.990 shares with a value of $103,758,787 showed that during some of the most decided bear selling in the last two years, small investors had been decided bulls...