Word: million
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book, an autograph manuscript of one of the sonnets and Brooke's copy of a first edition of Thomas Hardy's "Dynasts." First editions of Kipling's "Jungle Books" and of Thomas Hardy's "Dynasts". First editions of Kipling's "Jungle Books" and of O'Henry's "The Four Million" and "Heart of the West" show a trend in another direction. They belong to Amor Hollingsworth...
...million automobiles on the road in 1931 were an economic necessity almost as valid as bricks and bread. Almost, but not quite, for the automobile still combines pleasure with necessity. To millions of owners it is their most beautiful and costly possession. Its esthetic appeal is at once its weakness and its strength, for the potential owner who need not buy for necessity must be made to buy for pleasure. If he bought enough, the automobile industry might again perform its magic trick, might pull Prosperity out of Depression...
...cars were turned out in the U. S. and Canada, compared with 2,910,000 in 1930. 4,794.000 in 1929 (record year), 4.012,000 in 1928. Confronted by an alarming decrease, prophets turned over their problem to statisticians, gave them a basic theory that 21 million cars would continue to roll the roads, asked what 1932's production must be to maintain that figure...
...simple arithmetic answer is three million cars each year. Various adjustments have reduced the magic number to eight millions for the three years 1930-1932. Statisticians point out that combined 1930-31 production was 4,950,000, that 3,050,000 will have to be built in 1932. This, they have said, is unlikely. They estimate an output of 2,500,000 this year, concluding that only 20 million cars will be on the road while replacements fall another million behind...
...with racy lines. It looked rich, would do 80 m. p. h. It answered the need of many a man who had lost his shirt but hoped his friends did not know it. It made many another man who never had it to lose, feel like a million dollars...