Word: million
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being useless in the woods, that is absurd! We've been here about six weeks and have planted a good many million trees, building trails, camp sites, permanent quarters, graveled roads, etc. If G. F. B. doubts the above statements he may write to Mr. J. M. Walley, Forest Supervisor, Chippewa Forest, Cass Lake, Minn. In other words, know what you're talking about before you say anything...
...could not read a blue print (he cannot do it yet) but he knew what kind of plane he wanted. Speed Kid Williams built a hangar on an old sugar canefield on his estate and Jimmy Wedell went to work. Before he was through Mr. Williams dropped a half million dollars, but he had his money's worth last year when Wedell-Williams speedsters hung up a string of records, including a transcontinental record of 10 hr. 19 min. in the Bendix Trophy (Los Angeles-New-York). Last week three sleek Wedell-Williams ships were pitted against two chunky...
...Metropolitan). But if their autumn venture is as successful as the one just ending they may continue giving opera into the winter, offer the Metropolitan its only opposition since Oscar Hammerstein built his 34th Street theatre, drew such crowds that Otto Kahn paid him a million dollars to go away...
...executive order creating his office did not empower Administrator Sawyer to spend all the $3,300,000,000 authorized by Congress for public works, at an estimated ratio of a million jobs per billion dollars. His orders were strict. He was given 30 days to distribute $400,000,000 for highway building projects which could be started immediately. President Roosevelt promised to put 1,000,000 men to work by autumn...
Over a period of years, the A. M. A. has accumulated from the profits of its magazine a total of $3,400,000 including $1,000,000 in government securities. $895,000 in railroad, municipal and other bonds, $335,000 as cash. Three quarters of a million dollars of all this is being held for a new A. M. A. building in Washington when times improve...