Word: durant
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...company went broke in 1926, leaving Rickenbacker a quarter of a million dollars in debt. He was 36, married (to Adelaide Frost, ex-wife of the late millionaire racing driver Cliff Durant) and had a son. But he could not bear the thought of going into bankruptcy. He resolved to pay off the huge debt (he eventually did-"It made me feel right"). Then he raised $700,000 more, and bought the Indianapolis Speedway...
...poll predicted, in percentages of popular vote, as follows: Labor, 45%; Tories, 43.5%; Liberals, 10.5%; and others (Communists, independents, etc.),1%. Next day, 28 million Britons gave Labor 46.1%; the Tories 43-3%, the Liberals 9.2%, others 1.3%. The chief of Britain's Gallup poll, Henry Durant, is worried about one point: both this time and in 1945, his poll has been light on the Labor votes. "The weakness of polls," says Durant, "is their inability to find poor people . . . The simple, brutal fact is that most interviewers don't like talking to people who smell...