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...Soak the city of New Orleans, which Earl regards as hostile, by upping taxes on pari-mutuel betting by 30% and slashing the city's share of that revenue. New Orleans has the only flat-racing track in the state...
...governor," wearily explained one onlooking lawmaker, "is at it again." Indeed he was. At the end of an hour of labyrinthine maneuvering on the floor, Earl Long got the bill (to increase taxes on pari-mutuel betting) propped up for reconsideration...
...campaign to amend the constitution so that a two-thirds legislative majority is now needed for all tax boosts, hence most of Earl's paralyzing tax increases seem doomed to defeat. But that does not mean that Earl will give up. When, after the hard-won reconsideration, his pari-mutuel tax bill was beaten by one vote, Earl took another tack: he let it be known that he was thinking of letting a Northern syndicate into Louisiana to run competition to New Orleans' Fair Grounds race track...
...place. He flicked his whip in the dust and scuffled his boots like an embarrassed kid. Beyond him New York's Saratoga Raceway came alive with rural vigor; floodlights brightened over the hayseed atmosphere of a country carnival. Grandstand and clubhouse bulged with bettors, lines lengthened at pari-mutuel windows, tip-sheet hustlers hawked their wares. Joseph Cyril O'Brien, 38, looked just a little overawed by all the excitement...
...Americans will eat 10% more citrus fruits and tomatoes than in 1950, 11% less nuts, dry beans and peas. Outlays for "participant recreation" will be up 36.3%. This rise chiefly reflects the boom in pari-mutuel betting and pinball and slot-machine playing (whose net receipts more than trebled in a decade, to $419 million in 1952). Contributions to political and civic organizations will climb 45.8%. Buying of jewelry and watches will be up 37.2%, foreign travel 53.7%, medical insurance 60.6%, private schooling 101.4%, and airline travel 187.4%. The nation's highways will teem with 59 million cars...