Word: million
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Each million-dollar laboratory will employ about 200 workers on research projects. The Department has already announced Civil Service examinations for 25 chemists to serve as project leaders. Sites were chosen, the Secretary tactfully explained, near other scientific and industrial experimenters in order to provide a "stimulus to creative thinking." Deadline for starting work on all four projects: end of this fiscal year (June 30 next...
...arthropods (the name means "jointed legs") has the greatest number of species and individuals, occupies the widest stretches of territory and the greatest variety of habitat, consumes the largest amounts and the most diverse kinds of food, defends itself most capably from its enemies. Of more than a million known species of animals, 95% are invertebrates, and over three-fourths of them are arthropods...
During the last three months, to the almost complete indifference of 130 million Americans, some 25 books of poems have been published...
...population, industrial production (total and per capita), national income ($432 per capita in the U. S. for 1934-35), employment. Biggest headlines were accorded his estimate that between 1929 and now the country "lost 133 billion dollars of potential income," including 119 billions in workers' wages for 43 million man-years of work...
...dictionary, hid himself away in the Swiss Alps, where he labored for more than six years in an isolated house crammed with books and files. There, working from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m., day after day, intrepid Lexicographer Scholes laboriously wrote out the whole of his million-word book. When he had finished, he had covered 132 acres of paper weighing ten tons. Scholarly Scholes's one-man Companion had one ingredient that made it unique among music dictionaries: charm. Only half the size of the two U. S. dictionaries, it is a masterpiece of condensation...