totalizator

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Today, with respectable Boston names on its board of directors and a totalizator to compute and publicly quote the odds, there is no tampering with greyhounds, no back-room rigging of the payoff.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the basis of these totals the totalizator automatically sets the odds.

From Time Magazine Archive

If a great totalizator for bets on the final outcome of the war were possible, it would perhaps show that odds on the Axis were longer this spring than last.

From Time Magazine Archive

The fancier tracks have clubs where a $10 membership buys such amenities as table service, private totalizator windows, attendants to place bets and pick up winnings.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Shap�s and one or two of the leading monks attended race-meetings and gymkanas, put their money on the totalizator, and seemed to enjoy their day out.

From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Candler, Edmund