Word: million
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face of facts such as you quote from FORTUNE under ''Munitions Men'' we humble preachers and preachers-to-be get that helpless feeling that a fly in a reptile cage must have. However, I hope at least half a million of our intelligent readers absorb these exposures, brief though they evidently are, and do a little concentrated thinking and praying. I was moved to immediately find the first colleagues I could at this midnight hour and I read the article to them...
...money given to the Astronomical Observatory, known as the Elizabeth E. Bemis Fund, will be used in aiding the survey which is being made of the heavens out to the distance of one hundred million light years under the supervision of Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the Observatory. This task is being carried on at the South African Observatory and the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts, and was started more than ten years...
...Reverend Leslie Glenn, minister of Christ Church, Cambridge, spoke brilliantly and courageously in the Episcopal National Council last week. The money collected for missionary work by the Episcopal Churches of America had been the subject of an investigation prompted by the million dollar deficit. It was found that only four cents to the dollar was actually given out among the missionaries. Whatever one may feel of the efficacy of missionary work by any sect, this practice was plain larceny, the raising of money under false pretenses. It appears that church-men have been cognizant of the matter for a long...
...Five million members of Dickens clubs hoped The Life of Our Lord would start a Dickens revival. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has already announced a film version of David Copperfield...
...great enough to close the insatiable maws of the Big Navy clique, to which unfortunately, the President lends the full weight of his power. They demanded that the navy be built up to the top strength of the Washington Treaty 5-5-3 ratio. The terriffic cost, from 750 million to a billion, did not deter them; the Vinson Bill was formulated and favorably double-checked by Congress...