Word: tote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moving parts automatically calculate and indicate the odds in pari-mutuel betting. The Munns backed him when he started to manufacture the contraption a decade ago. Their American Totalisator Co. collects a royalty on every bet made at the 45 U.S. race tracks that use its "tote...
...Still used at Hialeah is the Australian totalisator (the original tote), a mechanical-electrical device invented at the turn of the century by Australia's Sir George Julius...
...there is a widespread notion in the Army that it can do anything else. Last week in Washington there was a rumor that the midget was going to be equipped with 75-mm. guns. Since the jeep's practical load limit is 800 lb., it could hardly tote a 75, which weighs 3,900. But it is steady as a mule under the recoil of a 37-mm. antitank gun. If, under stress, the jeep should turn over, it is a simple matter for a few soldiers to set it right side up again...
...first act when he went to Congress in 1917 was to vote for a declaration of war against Germany. Then he left the House (without resigning) to join the Army. He was a captain at Camp Meade, with overseas orders, when World War I ended. Too old to tote a gun now (he will be 64 this month), Tom Connally is not too old to enjoy power politics as head of Foreign Relations...
...International Brotherhood of Teamsters, to create a little employment-to force "name bands," playing in theaters, to hire teamsters to carry musicians' instruments. Under this arrangement a band, arriving in automobiles or taxicabs, would pay teamsters $10 per man by the day, $20 by night, to tote piccolos and bull fiddles across the sidewalk into the theater...