Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Total vote to date: 489 vertical head shakes to Reader Moorman's and one other horizontal. Current & Choice will appear again in TIME, Sept...
...that rate (128,000 paid daily average) Grover Whalen will have about 24,000,000 admissions by the Fair's close next October 30-a little better than one-third his prediction. With luck, attendance might increase in the cooler autumn months, total 32,000,000 at season's end. Last March a Gallup poll said 13,000,000 people planned to attend the Fair, 19,000,000 hoped they could. Last week another poll showed that: 1) two-thirds of the planners had made 2.3 visits apiece to the Fair; 2) the remaining third were going this...
...week. Although the Fair takes a cut ranging from 8% to 25% of gross receipts from amusement concessions, under Rose's contract his payments did not begin until he had recouped $160,000 he spent to roof the Marine Amphitheatre and build a swimming pool (his total Aquacade investment...
...live on the screen, Warner Bros, teamed their pop-eyed Bernhardt, Bette Davis, with an equally fiery filly from off the home lot, honey-haired Miriam Hopkins. The result flounces its skirts a little more boldly than the stage show but, like it, is hardly more than the sum total of two good, sometimes brilliant, performances...
This week the No. 1 U. S. oil State made a bold answer: Texas shut down 87,600 wells for 15 days, cutting off production of some 1,300,000 barrels daily. Texas' objective: to force up posted prices-no easy job with gasoline stocks at the thumping total of 76,431,000 barrels and crude pouring into the refineries from other fields...