Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police discovered that he had been stabbed 17 times and strangled in the basement of a nearby house owned by Reuben Schenzvit, gunrunner and onetime salesman for the late munitions tycoon, Sir Basil Zaharoff. In the house was a radio transmitting set powerful enough to reach Europe, a dozen microphones and dictographs. Leading from the basement to the orange grove was a 400-yd. tunnel...
...Basque harbor of Bilbao, H. M. S. Hood, most potent warboat in the world, plowed ponderously through mountainous waves with Vice Admiral Geoffrey Blake on its quarterdeck. Between the Hood and the harbor was the ancient Spanish battleship España, flagship of the Rightist fleet, and a half-dozen battered codfish trawlers armed with machine guns. Less than 100-mi. away a half-dozen British freighters were in the harbor of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, loaded with food for beleaguered Leftist Bilbao, but by orders from London the Hood, with all the awesomeness of its 15-inch guns, could...
...desk of overworked Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank and Minister of Economics, there came last week a neatly typed memorandum signed by the presidents of a dozen large mortgage banks. The Nazi Government, they complained, scrabbling for every pfennig to pay for its fabulous armament program, has practically taken over their entire capital, making it impossible for them to issue mortgage loans, their chief source of income. If this practice is not stopped, some of the mortgage banks will be forced to close...
...sent to the scene, but Oshawa's police chief maintained order, even without calling on his 17 men, by taking 50 strikers as unofficial deputies to enforce observance of the laws for peaceful picketing. When some 77 office workers and other non-union employes including a dozen girls went into the plant and operated the parts & service department, shipping out truckloads of spare parts to dealers, the incensed strikers screamed "Bums!" "Scabs!" but did no violence...
...there were less than a dozen recognized law schools, now there...