Word: million
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus the transfer of nearly one hundred million dollars across some 3,000 sea miles was accomplished, to everyone's satisfaction, by mere "earmarking." Strictly speaking, that was all there was to the British debt payment last week. Actually the Federal Reserve decided not to leave in London the gold earmarked for it there, requested actual delivery. This meant more work for the Old Lady's gnomes. Grunting, they packed bars into wooden boxes. The boxes will be carried to Manhattan by seven British ships: Georgia, Carinthia, Majestic, Lancastria, Mauretania, Britannic, Aurania...
...basis of 1830 methods, six million men would have been needed to cultivate the soil for the 1929 U. S. wheat crop. With the best existent equipment 4,000 men could have planted the whole crop...
This is the forty-fifth gathering of the geologists, and the first one after the announcement of the four million dollar gift, recently donated from the fund of Dr. R. A. F. Penrose '84. At the opening session, the society will decide the purpose to which the majority of this money is to be put. The officers have already agreed to underwrite the conference of the International Geological Conference, to be held at Washington this coming summer...
...prove his point he produced from his large person, like a magician, 40 U. S.-made watches which he said he had bought in Europe for less than U. S. jobbers would sell him the same article here. This speech made a sensation. Eleven million reprints of it were circulated. A tariff revolt was started by the gentleman from Illinois which cost the Republicans the House in 1910, the Presidency in 1912. Tariffs are still Representative Rainey's special legislative study. He works on them the way other men work on their golf stroke. When President Hoover raised...
Directors Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Taurog, Stephen Roberts, Norman McLeod, James Cruze, William A. Seiter and H. Bruce Humberstone were responsible for various episodes of If I Had a Million and 16 Paramount writers took part in what must have been the highly amusing game of writing it. As fodder for the cinema public, If I Had a Million has the disadvantage of lacking sustained suspense. This may prevent it from starting a cycle. Good shot : Mr. Bennett gasping with fury when, picking up a telephone book to start his scheme, he happens first on the name of John D. Rockefeller...