Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost 90 per cent of the total enrollment of the School was willing to undergo the six-hour ordeal, Dean Chase said, when the first test of its kind was given last year...
Outstanding Eastern hero so far this season has been Columbia's Halfback Sidney Luckman, whose passing equals the best performances in football history. In last fortnight's game against Yale, Halfback Luckman completed ten out of 17 passes (most of them on the run) for a total gain of 146 yards, scored a touchdown and kicked three extra points. He not only throws a 50-yd. pass like a catcher pegging to second base, but feints his opponents out of position like a boxer...
...first day only one lady broke 80. She was Mrs. Edward L. Howe of Princeton, N. J., who posted 79. The following day, while the majority of players were dampened by an annoying drizzle (only four broke 90), Mrs. Howe ran away from the field. Her 36-hole total of 159 set a new record for the U. S. Women's Senior Golf championship...
Allied also disclosed the total of its U. S. Government holdings - $21,000,000. That left $39,000,000 of miscellaneous investments. Allied long claimed that divulging these holdings would hurt its trade advantages. Last week it looked as though SEC, in persuading Allied to tell all, had promised to keep certain facts secret. Allied's report to SEC, which was made public by the New York Stock Exchange, still left $4,000,000 worth of holdings unexplained...
...anyone used to know about Allied's portfolio was its total ($92,000,000 in 1932). Because there were accepted rumors that it was composed of nothing but blue chips. Wall Street was horrified when Orlando Weber was badgered five years ago into admitting that the biggest single holding listed as an asset was really a liability - $31,000,000 of Allied's own stock...