Word: million
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...standstill. From Kansas City Charles W. Lonsdale, Vice President of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, flayed "price-fixing," and the Farm Board's "heavyhanded policy." The Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce roared angry protests, claimed the Board would ruin grain dealers. Chairman Legge, sitting on 25 million bushels of wheat, scorned these protests as "propaganda" to discredit the Board, bragged...
...great load of protest which has been heaped on the present prohibition legislation during the past few weeks. But it might conceivably prove to be the straw which would break the back of the hard-ridden camel of dry enactments. The Crimson is well aware that there are a million undergraduates in colleges and universities in the United States; it is equally well aware that these students will be leaders of national affairs in a few years. The editors hope that the sentiments of these million people can be unified, and that the effect will be to hasten the change...
...provided for all states enacting legislation to enforce the eighteenth amendment; there shall be federal education to foster and encourage temperance and abstinence; a federal tax shall be placed on some beverages to provide funds to effect items three and four. The Crimson knows that it cannot get a million undergraduates to endorse this plan; but it wants above all else to unite an enormously powerful public opinion behind some definite scheme for the remedy of an existing evil...
According to the Government's estimate, half a million peasants, most of whom had never in their lives seen a gas jet, much less an incandescent lamp, sat wrapt in curiosity while they saw what Little Tsar Boris thought it good for them to see. Well known is the fact that His Majesty takes an active, personal interest in this casting of light and knowledge into minds naive, amazed...
...cloud into its egglike shape. The butt side is towards the sun. It is in that direction 30,000 miles thick and appears as the Zodiacal light. From the opposite side of the earth where the cloud's resistance to sunlight pressure is less it is squeezed a million miles or more from earth into a thin taper. That is where the Gegenschein glows. Through that taper the earth's atmosphere very, very slowly escapes into universal chaos, a millionth part in a million years...