Word: vi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vacationists who admired sprightly Viña's well-paved streets and carefully manicured parks could thank both themselves and the Casino. Roughly half of the $3,000,000 gambling take goes to the municipality. Who is going to get the other half is the question that currently makes political mouths water...
...Chilean peso is worth 4?. A smart operator once bought a 30,000 peso stack, of chips (worth $1,200) at Viña, flew to Montevideo where a casino used identical chips, cashed them for 30,000 Uruguayan pesos-worth...
...George VI turned 51, but quietly, except for a salute of guns in Hyde Park at noon, another later on at Windsor Castle, where there was a small, private party. The official celebration, as usual, would be at garden-party time on June...
Carlos Vial, president of the potent Banco Sudamericano and one of Chile's biggest bullmarket operators, tracked down Wachholtz in swank Viña del Mar and in the presence of President González, was said to have accused him of playing bear and speculating on the market drop. Husky Minister Wachholtz swung on Vial, knocked out two teeth. Last week Vial sued for "grave lesions" to his person; Wachholtz sued also-for defamation and injury by publicity...
From George VI to Viscounts Mountbatten, Alanbroolce, Portal, Alexander, and Montgomery, for distinguished war service, went the ancient Order of the Garter...