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Now, if you want to control the winning number, you can pay off on racetrack bets, and manipulate the totals.

7 seconds sound clip from the Bullets or Ballots (1939) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:30:47 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Well, it's so penny-ante that she's picking up 12000 a week out of a few neighborhood stores.

- Most of the vets are nickels and dimes.

- There are seven million people in this town and all of them looking for easy money.

- You just offer them 600 from one and watch this thing spread like a fourth alarm fire.

- And they won't be playing one number a a piece, they'll be picking four or five.

- Now, if you want to control the winning number, you can pay off on racetrack bets, and manipulate the totals.

- And all it needs is organization.

- You get a million people buying numbers every day and this one racket will clean up 300 million dollars a year.

- Why, it's easy! It's a cinch!

- 300 million?

- That's right

- Did somebody say something about penny-ante?

[...]

Bullets or Ballots (1939) Sound Clip

Bullets or Ballots (1939)Quotes with sound clips from Bullets or Ballots - Lux Radio Theatre play originally aired on April 17, 1939.

Actors: Edward G. Robinson (Detective Johnny Blake), Mary Astor (Lee Morgan), Humphrey Bogart (Bugs Brenner), Otto Kruger (Al Kruger)

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