Word: million
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both in theory and practice. Proof of this is afforded by appeals, constantly sent out to the proletariat of the world by the Third International at Mos cow to fight Fascism to death." Idleness. "Unemployment is causing anxiety in Italy as in all other countries. We have a half-million unemployed at the present time, of whom 100,000 are women and 250,000 come from agriculture and the building trades where seasonal unemployment prevails. I am opposed to the dole. I prefer relief in the form of public works which substantially increase the efficiency of our national economic equip...
...semblance of peace can thus be attained, then Britain and the United States would jointly arrange a loan of a thousand million dollars to be spent in opening China by railways and highways and by lending support to various schemes to bring about an era of orderly civilization throughout the nation...
...Corn Products Refining Co. were jubilant last week. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde ruled that corn sugar may be used in foods without declaring it on the label. Corn Products Refining makes 400,000 Ib. of corn sugar per day, now plans to double its capacity, build a million-dollar plant. The company's trademarked products include: Argo starch; Mazola oil; Karo syrup; Linit starch; Cerelose white sugar; Kremel pudding powder...
...billion stars. Said Dr. Shapley: "What is the new picture this gives us? We must conceive of the whole universe as expanding endlessly . . . the galaxies and super-galaxies scattering all the time. We even have figures on the rate of this expansion during the last 2,000 million years. ... It is reasonable to assume that it [the universe] will continue increasing in dimensions at the same rate and 2,000 million years from now it will be scattered over twice the area it occupies now. . . . There will come a time when there will be nothing but emptiness left...
...terrestrial magnetism, read a paper worth $1,000, the annual Association award for outstanding address of the meeting. With three fellow physicists, Drs. L. R. Hafsted and Odd Dahl of Carnegie Institution and Dr. Gregory Breit of New York University, he worked for several years to develop a two-million-volt tube which produces X-rays equivalent to the gamma rays of 182 million dollars worth of radium. Laboratory significance : scientists by using these powerful rays may be able to burst the atom nucleus. Practical significance: X-rays from high voltage tubes resemble cancer-curing gamma rays, may possibly...