Word: halfmillion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good murder mysteries, the scientific detective. Appearing seldom in public, he spent all his working hours in his laboratory squinting through microscopes, blinking at sputtering X-ray lamps, scrutinizing bloodstains. Elaborately indexed in his bureau were the record cards of nine million criminals, five million Bertillon photographs, a halfmillion fingerprints...
...banks which were creditors of his bank).* Thus Waggoner had apparently not engineered his scheme for any personal profit, but had sacrificed himself for his bank, which for a long time had been faced with dwindling deposits and threatened collapse. The Bank of Telluride was gainer by almost a halfmillion; the six Manhattan banks were losers by a halfmillion...
Fortnight ago the greatest British cotton strike since the War ended. In Manchester, Blackburn, Oldham, a halfmillion Lancashire cotton workers trudged from their dingy yellow brick houses back to the mills, agreed to abide by the decision of an Arbitral Board of Five: two workers, two employers and an umpire (TIME...
...members it has I do not know. There are 50,000 anyway, because I have received letters from that many. At the WOR station it is estimated that letters are ordinarily received from less than 10% of the listeners-in to any broadcast feature. So there may be a halfmillion. . . ." He stated that he had read all 50,000 letters, replied to many. A Massachusetts mother wrote: "I used to be at my wits' end trying to get my husband and my boys and girls up in the morning." A boy of ten wanted to know if the exercises...