Word: million
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...NIRB turns out reams of decisions and orders which, for affected industries, have all the authority of substantive law. In every city, town and hamlet NRA's viceroys, the code authorities, govern as best they can. The 1,400 mills of the cotton textile industry, employing half a million workers, which for years had known no law but strife, now all obey one law in regard to hours, wages, production. To other industries, such as automobiles, the change may make less difference, but it is law of a kind and its potentialities are vast. In short...
...Majesty Power of Trinity in blistering Addis-Ababa last week expected to hear him exclaim "I is right glad to see you all ! Now I is gwine tell you how this all is" they were abysmally mistaken. The sharp-featured, politically cunning ruler of between five and ten million savage and uncounted blacks is emphatically the suave cream in Africa's strong coffee. If the accustomed garb of Power of Trinity is particolored, gorgeous and outlandish, if His Majesty finds a real lion's mane appropriate headgear in his role of Conquering Lion of Judah, the reason...
...with themselves than anywhere else in the U. S., is now the U. S. greyhound-racing capital. Two thousand dogs are quartered there every winter. Filling stations give out free tickets to the races. Improving the breed, ostensible purpose of the sport, costs visitors nearly half a million dollars every year in State taxes on their bets...
...Paint another name on this ship!" barked Pirate Captain Taudien. "What name? Donnerwetter, any name! When we get to America I'll sell her and her cargo for half a million...
Turning to national planning by an economic board, Mr. Cabot said it would not work "because there is no authority now in existence which has the power to put the plans into effect.' He described the results of such a board as "a million plans gathering dust an someone's desk...