Word: million
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entire territory now occupied by that Republic. Consequently, I had more than a perfunctory interest in the recent comment on the Liberian situation (TIME, June 24). Your article contains many undeniable facts but there are some statements that are more picturesque than accurate. For instance, there may be a million rats in Monrovia but I have been there twice and I can only say that I never saw one. Again, you state that the Liberian Government has "never succeeded in controlling the million or more Afro-Africans who inhabit Liberia's 43,000 square miles of equatorial jungle...
...Johnson met Manhattan reporters with the promise that in disbursing New York City's share of the new four-billion-dollar work relief fund he wanted to "give it all a public airing." And he had been only a little more sanguine about taking over NRA and putting six million men to work by Labor Day than he was at becoming a Works Progress Director. At Washington, Newark and Manhattan he growled: "The President said he wanted me to take the job. I did not want to take it. ... I was called in today to the log cabin on Pennsylvania...
...Chamber of Commerce, decided that such talents should be given an opportunity to flower. Chauffeur Cummins, mechanically inclined since childhood, had built an automobile at the age of 15. Mr. Irwin set him up in business with $10,000, eventually backed him with half a million. By 1930 Chauffeur Cummins was one of the leading manufacturers of Diesel engines...
...Total receipts were approximately seven million francs ($461,720)," said M. Cangardel. Subtracting from this the $250,000 operating cost would leave an operating profit for the maiden voyage of $211,720, but some sort of bow had to be made to payment of fixed charges, depreciation and insurance. Not explaining precisely how he figured these, M. Cangardel said roundly, "Normandie made a profit on her maiden voyage of one million francs...
...Five million tons of rain fell on Atlantic City, the Weather Bureau calculated, the first day that the American and Canadian Medical Associations met there last week in joint convention. Thereafter the weather was clear and brisk, and the doctors, looking prosperous and vigorous, buckled down to the convention business of protecting their profession from laymen, of protecting laymen from quacks, of learning many a fact about disease. Some 300 men reported their last year's research. Dr. Emanuel Libman delivered the Billings Lecture (TIME, June 10). Study of 236 scientific and 225 commercial exhibits absorbed all the doctors...