Word: 000th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Automakers rolled out their 4,000,000th automobile, the first time in history that so many cars had been produced so early in the year. Even though wildcat walkouts at Cadillac and at some Chevrolet plants trimmed G.M. production 12%, most assembly lines were back to normal...
...York's Aqueduct Race Track, gentlemanly Jockey Ted Atkinson, 38, a studious and mild-mannered master of the art of booting home winners, won his 3,000th horse race and became the fourth jockey in history to achieve that record (others: Johnny Longden, Eddie Arcaro and Britain's Sir Gordon Richards...
...microscope, the X rays are generated by an electron beam that is focused by electronic lenses on a spot only one-100,000th of an inch in diameter, 300 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. X rays coming from this tiny pinpoint cast shadows so sharp that they keep their definition even when thrown on a fluorescent screen or photographic film with 1,500 diameters of magnification...
...help war victims find relatives and friends in East Germany. Since 1948, RIAS has put on the air the names of more than 50,000 missing persons-mostly children, D.P.s or P.W.s-and received 91,700 letters. Last week RIAS and Suchdienst announced that they had found their 5,000th missing person behind the Iron Curtain-a lost son who had been reported missing in action at Stalingrad eleven years...
Canada last week admitted its 1,000,000th immigrant since World War II. No other country except the U.S. has received as many new settlers in the past seven years...