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...boxes. In recent years, reported syndicated King Features Columnist George Dixon, Bettor Beall has applied a "wisdom of the ages" in a totally unscientific system that has won two spectacular daily doubles. Five years ago Senator Beall slapped down $2 on Nos. 5 & 6, lit up himself as the tote board lit up with news that he had won $780. Asked a man in the next box: "How did you figure out five and six?" Replied Beall to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover: "I just bet my age. I'm 56." Groaned Hoover: "I always...
...tote no guns and we rob no stages...
...objects of varying shapes and sizes in just one second has been developed by Du Mont Laboratories, Inc. of Clifton, N.J. The Inconumerator employs a cathode-ray tube to "see," remember what it has counted, then announce the results as lighted figures on a tote board. Among its practical uses: counting blood cells, mass counting of assorted machine parts, tabulating stars in astronomical photos...
...characters in the history of U.S. drama, Colonel Nimrod Wildfire of Kentucky occupies a special place. He claimed to be "half horse, half alligator [and] a touch of the airth-quake." He had "the prettiest sister, fastest horse, and ugliest dog in the deestrict." He could "tote a steam boat up the Mississippi and over the Alleghany mountains." His father could "whip the best man in old Kaintuck, and I can whip my father." All in all, the colonel was a wow back in the 1830s-the literary prototype of the tall-talking frontiersman, the first introduction to the stage...
...bomber first flew in 1946, it was the world's mightiest (wing span: 230 ft.; weight: 179 tons) and first intercontinental bomber. With six 3,800-h.p. Pratt & Whitney engines (plus four General Electric J47 jets), it can fly 10,000 miles with a five-ton bomb load, tote as much as 42 tons of bombs for shorter distances at speeds up to 435 m.p.h...