Word: digit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...devising) body measurements would enable an investigator to determine, for any person, the strength of each component. That strength could be rated numerically on a scale of 1 (almost complete absence) to 7 (almost complete dominance). Then the individual's body type would be a three-digit number showing his quantity of each component-such as 443, 172, 236. There would be no individual who would...
Other significant gains in capital goods: packaging machinery, especially for foods, destined for Latin America; trucks & busses up 47%; electrical equipment up 24%; farm implement exports up 20% to $16,690,000. But all such items fell miserably short of the ten-digit dollar totals needed to snap U. S. capital goods production out of its ten-year slump...
...February 1930, one Wall Street broker had had enough of a good thing, was ready to get out while the getting was good. His name: Charles Edward Merrill. His firm: Merrill Lynch & Co. His fortune: a comfortable eight-digit one. Out of broking, Merrill Lynch continued as an underwriting and investment house, specializing in equity securities of growing chain-store systems. Its babies: Safeway Stores, First National Stores, McCrory Stores, Lerner, Kresge, Western Auto Supply...