Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dewey charged that the county's registration of 82,000 was larger than its adult population. The total votes for Governor last fortnight amounted to 94% of this registration and Mr. Lehman's plurality was more than 20,000. Albany County politics are administered by the Democratic brother bosses, Daniel P. and Edward J. O'Connell...
...repair their one night's damage the Japanese engineers send out 3,100 Ibs. of steel rails, 240 spikes and 28 poles. Total cost: 4,780 yen. Thus, if the Paoting farmers keep up their twice-a-week raids, they will cost the Japanese half a million yen a year. If 1,000 villages do the same, Japan will have to increase her army budget half a billion yen a year, reason the guerrillas. Therefore, 2,000 organizers have recently been sent out to carry on concerted rail-raiding parties...
Last week total bank reserves were at an all-time high of $8,727,000,000, excess reserves only a mite below the 1935 peak of $3,300,000,000. For the first time in history banks are holding more cash than their total outstanding loans. In 1933 cash holdings were 48% of total loans; today they are 114%. This money, sitting idle, earning no return, has caused a drop in bank income from $556,514,000 for Federal Reserve members...
...London, Odeon Theatres released the results of a survey of audience reactions at children's matinees in 142 theatres with a total weekly attendance of 150,000. Of British children, 83% like newsreels, 94% like military & naval scenes, 89% like shots of royalty, 88% dislike foreign dictators. British children's favorite stars in order of their popularity are Hollywood's Buck Jones, Shirley Temple, Jane Withers, Tim McCoy...
...average (76% six months ago). Electrical output set a 1938 high. Automobile production for the week was 86,300 units, 6.270 more than the preceding week and 2,975 more than 1937's comparable week. Bank debits to individual accounts again showed a substantial increase and total money in circulation was at the highest level since the bank holiday...