Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Governor Ellis Arnall offered $10,000 in rewards to solve Walton County's "mass murder ... one of the worst incidents ever to take place in our state...
Long before sunrise, the people of Paris started their pilgrimage. By daybreak, they had become a solid grey mass covering the Champs Elysées and the Place de la Concorde, solemnly waiting to pay homage to the American emissary. When finally they spied his carriage, behind its glittering escort of mounted, helmeted guardsmen, a shout of joy vaulted from their silence. Men who heard it said later that the cheer did not sound human, that the (lead must been been crying in it too. Children threw roses and violets. Sobbing men hid their faces and women knelt to pray...
...nervous as he prepared to close it last week. U.S. Chief Prosecutor Robert Houghwout Jackson knew that not merely the courtroom's obedient microphones but also the ears of history were listening to his words. Jackson tried to show that the trial's 'mad and melancholy" mass of evidence, which the U.S. prosecution had helped compile with masterly precision, was not, as the defense had claimed, merely a disconnected series of misfortunes. Said Jackson: "Each part of the plan fitted into every other. . . . The armament industries were fed by the concentration camps. The concentration camps were...
Third. The idea that prices will continue to go up is equally absurd. Most manufacturers cater to the majority, and most goods are mass-produced. A mass producer cannot ask more for his product than the majority can afford to pay. And if they can pay, they will. They will buy more, and more will be produced. Within a short time, the scarcity will disappear, and the prices will come down...