Word: million
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...harked back to 1921 when "anxiety for daily bread haunted nearly one quarter of our 23 million families...
...recalled how the Republican administration called a conference of which he was chairman; how "within a year we restored . . . five million workers to employment" and produced stability, prosperity. . . . This recovery and this stability are no accident. It has not been achieved by luck...
With the approaching completion of two new floors of steel stacks in the Widener Library additional space will be provided for more than a quarter of a million volumes, according to Superintendent Frank Carney. The original plans made allowances for two floors, upon a level lower than the present A and B floors; but no movement was made toward the completion of these floors until further contributions could be received. Merely the steel superstructure supporting the above eight floors was in place...
Roman Catholicism. Meeting at Columbus, Ohio, the National Lutheran Editors' Association, a body representing, two million readers of Lutheran literature, brought out of the whispering gallery and into the amplifiers the oldtime subject of Nominee Smith's Roman Catholicism. While not presuming to campaign openly for Hoover, the Lutheran editors voted to tell their readers that the Roman Catholic Church requires of its members allegiance to a "foreign sovereign . . . who has worldwide political interests of his own which may severely clash with the best interests of our country...
...reality in France. It began at Verdun, during the War. Water was polluted; typhoid threatened the troops. He invented an automatic device to pump hypochlorite of soda into the drinking water. Two and a half to five pounds of hypochlorite liberated enough chlorine to kill the germs in one million gallons of water...