Word: million
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about the case was when he received a telephone message at 7 p. m. from a relative of Mrs. Stoll, onetime Ambassador Frederick M. Sackett Jr. Within 24 hr. the D. O. I. laboratories had the $50,000 ransom note, had found fingerprints and identified them, among nearly five million on file, as belonging to a young Nashville maniac named Robinson. Foolish Kidnapper Robinson named his father in Nashville as intermediary and money-passer...
...were served them on their thrones. Next day was Columbus Day, celebrated in Latin America as ''The Day of the Race." In honor of the Eucharistic Congress the customary soccer games and races were called off. The morning soon grew hot. At mass, celebrated for half a million people at the great cross by the Bishop of Alicante, Spain, permission was given the men to wear their hats, the clergy their birettas. Since the women had been ordered to wear dark dresses and mantillas, the only relief that could be suggested was for them to move from their...
...large paper could afford to hire, at princely salary, such a man as Gene Fowler . . . or Joel Sayre, a wandering behemoth who went to Hollywood. ... As balloon-prickers, daubers of stuffed shirts and philosophical pranksters such men are worth any dozen efficiency experts. . . ." After he has learned the million-and-one do's and don't's of technique, and "not to ask the city editor how to get to Canarsie." and that "Women, wampum and wrong-doing are always news," the reporter may, after several years, earn nearly $50 a week. A small group who have...
...inflation talk jiggled the stockmarket into the first million-share day in weeks. Prices rounded out a month-long rise from the year's low in September, and Wall Street approached cheerfulness. Steel was a few steps out of the bog. Electric power production topped the 1933 line for the first time in six weeks. Loans to businessmen swelled another $34,000,000. bringing the total expansion since the middle of August...
Kelth's Boston: "Million Dollar Ransom"--Damon Runyon's well-known story with Philips Holmes, Edward Arnold and Mary Carlisle...