Word: million
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carriers fussed & fumed as uncertainty held up 300 million dollars' worth of their R. F. C. loan applications. President Hoover summoned President Dawes, talked with Chairman Meyer, then held an hour-long conference with 13 rail executives representing such roads as the Pennsylvania, Chesapeake & Ohio, Louisville & Nashville, Northern Pacific, Missouri Pacific, Southern, Union Pacific, New York, New Haven & Hartford, Baltimore & Ohio and New York Central. Lips sealed, the railroaders emerged from the President's office looking glum and anxious. Next day, having arranged a compromise between Messrs. Dawes & Meyer for rail relief, the President cheerfully announced...
...groups of meteorites recently studied appears to be below 3000 million years, which suggests a low age also for the stellar universe. Professor Paneth of Konigsberg has determined the age of a number of meteorites from their relative content of helium and radium; for 24 different iron meteorites he found values ranging from 100 to 2900 million years; for the Pultusk stone meteorites, the fall of which in 1868 has been well observed, he gives a preliminary value of 500 million years, which is probably a minimum value because of possible loss of helium in space and in our museums...
...from another, but must have been created simultaneously, and that their age is too short for any appreciable evolution having taken place. Finally, the observed recession of spiral nebulae, reflecting the phenomenon of the expanding universe, indicates a possible age of the extragalactic universe of a few thousand million years only. From all these facts we infer that probably the age of our universe does not differ very much from the age of the solar system, and that not very much more than 3000 million years have elapsed since the spiral nebulae, the stars, and the star-dust (the meteors...
...than those which the free public schools afford". In order to conform to the will undergraduates must obviously be admitted. The school, moreover, derives the greater part of its income from this bequest which, when it is entirely in University hands (ca. 1956), will amount to about twenty-three million dollars...
That Columbia Broadcasting System was worth more than ten million last week nobody seemed to doubt. At first competitive bidders but finally fellow stock-holders with President Paley were Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co., Lehman Corp., Field, Glore & Co. and Herbert Bayard Swope. Columbia's gross business in 1931 was $11,000,000. It owns five stations outright, has 91 affiliates, is the world's largest radio broadcasting system...