Word: million
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Cross in the hearts and homes of the people of America, is playing its part with the great unified Allied army standing there on the western front against the Kaiser, and Hindenburg and the Huns. The message I bring to you from Europe is this: 'In a million different ways the Red Cross is helping in the winning of this...
...mean the collapse of much war work of immeasurable value, and it will fail unless the whole nation co-operates in the one end of maintaining it. To do so really successfully the week of May 20-27 should see a response at least equal to the one hundred million dollar totals of the last drive...
...yesterday have become the billions of today as America enters the second year of her financial support of the war. Large figures no longer attract attention and have become the rule rather than the exception. Yet anyone who attempts a mental picture of a billion dollars or a million men is astounded by their magnitude. We may take pride in the greatness of our resources, but we may wonder at the strain they are now standing...
...plans must be revised, augmented, redrawn to a more gigantic scale. We have a million and a half men in service and in training. We are calling out eight hundred thousand more in the second draft. But even that will be not enough. We can do better. We can give more...
...present schedule we shall have something like two and a half million men in service and in training when the present year of the world's travail ends. We ought to have twice as many. The more men we give the quicker the task will be done. The more men we send, the more will come back safe and sound. The way to save American lives is to offer American lives with prodigal hands...