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When they return to the U. S. the picture-on-the-pants will not be in its present location. The proud Explorers Club last week concluded that mortgages on their new eight-story building were too heavy to tote through Depression. The late James Bishop Ford, vice president of the U. S. Rubber Co., who assembled most of the money to begin construction of the clubhouse, died aged 84 (TIME, April 9, 1928) without arranging for funds to complete it. The clubhouse carries a $225,000 6% first mortgage which must be repaid May 24, 1933. A second mortgage...
...binoculars who made notes on the margins of their form charts. By 11 a.m. the bookmakers were on their platforms shouting odds soon to be changed: "Fifty to one against the field except Easter Hero!" All morning there were long lines of bettors at the windows of the new "tote" (totalizator) machines...
...Supposing I wanted a ticket for Suada in the fourth race?" said the King-Emperor tentatively to the sleek little man in the tote, "What...
Although the promoters of the tote call it "the acme of simplicity," most Englishmen have not yet quite got the hang of this outlandish French machine, and last week King George approached his first tote with frank diffidence...
Burrrrzipppp! The clerk touched an electric key, and, exactly like a U. S. movie ticket machine, the tote poked out a ticket for Suada, value of one guinea. Fingering this novel pasteboard, puffing his pale Havana, George V walked back to the Royal Box with Suada's owner, his son-in-law, the spidery-limbed Earl of Harewood, spouse of Princess Mary. In the fourth race Royalty's loping Suada was almost lost among the last of the also-rans, and lost with it was the King's guinea. A genial loser, George V discreetly made known that...