Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Damage & Indemnity. In Germany, insurance companies reported damage claims of more than $5,000,000 from Jewish policy holders in Berlin, more than $4,000,000 in Vienna. The New York Times estimated that total damage to Jewish property in Germany "may possibly reach one billion marks" ($400,000,000). The Times thought that the Jewish community this week, after all depredations, still owned property in Germany worth perhaps four billion marks ($1,600,000,000) and, before Hitler, may have owned 20 billions...
...strange as the cinema. He studied market trends, invested in carefully selected securities so wisely that in 1933 he was able to give President Wilbur securities then worth $367,000. Still short of his goal, Dr. Cubberley asked the University to hold his investments until earnings raised the total...
...bring U. S. television out of the laboratory, engineers have several tough nuts to crack. DuMont's head man, Allen B. DuMont, boasts that he holds the broken shells of three of the toughest. Hitherto each television station has been using six megacycles, almost six times the total wavelength space filled by 745 licensed stations in the U. S. broadcast band. The DuMont transmitter has been reduced to a relatively modest three-mega-cycle sprawl. The DuMont transmitting system is said to throw its pictures well beyond television's paltry 50-mile effective range. This it has done...
...under-par 68 on each of the first two rounds, a 69 on the third and then, after trailing Ky Laffoon by one stroke at the 63rd hole, the pride of White Sulphur Dreezed through the final nine in a whirlwind 32 for a seven-under-par total of 273 -and first prize...
...ordered the company to show cause why it should not be fined the maximum total of $917,000 ($1.000 for each...