Word: million
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the Red Cross was caring for 255,735 families-about a million mouths. Its $10,000,000 relief drive climbed slowly past the $8,000,000 mark. Rations were being distributed on the basis of 42? per person per week. Still unreported last week was any authenticated case of death of starvation in the Drought area...
...Senate appears to be an extremely short sighted move on the part of the representatives of the nation. The bill if repassed over the President's practically certain veto, will mean a demand of approximately one and a quarter billions of dollars on the federal treasure. About two million men, according to General Hines of the Veteran Bureau, will apply for loans if this bill, enabling them to borrow up to fifty per cent on the the face value of their bonus certificates, goes into effect...
...however reactionary its organization may be, its support of World Peace as expressed in the Pope's recent encyclical and now in his first radio speech may be a great help in the solution of the most pressing international problem of the present day. Three hundred million people of the dominant race of the world will hear this speech as the voice of God. These people will not attempt to disobey this decree except under the gravest provocation. Coming at a time such as this when peace between classes and nations is being strained, it can be of great benefit...
...doubt if, out of the million and a half people who are afflicted by reason of the drouth, there is a single man or woman who has ever asked a favor of the Government of the United States. How happy they would be if conditions were restored and nature should smile upon them again and they should be able to take care of their own, feed and clothe their own! How happy they would be to be relieved of the humiliation of going to the Government for help...
...Inventors Poirer, Lyon, Oberth and Esnault-Pelterie had had their rocket planes in readiness last week, they might have reached a planet with a short jaunt of only 16 million miles. The tiny asteroid Eros passed closer to the earth than any other body except the moon and an occasional comet ever comes. Men could see it with strong binoculars, scrutinize it with telescopes...