Word: million
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced that he had reconsidered and would give "wholehearted support" to the ticket after all. But later that day Miner Lewis flatly announced in Washington that, ticket or no ticket, he would support Miner Kennedy for Governor. Did this mean, newshawks asked, that C. I. O.'s half-million Pennsylvania voters would walk out on the Democratic ticket? Replied John L. Lewis: "Figure it out for yourself...
...meteoritic clumps corresponding to these humps can be reached by sinking a shaft straight down through rock undisturbed by the meteorite's passage, then drifting sidewise through the troublesome watery strata which were broken by the impact. Even if the meteoritic bodies weigh no more than a million tons, at present prices they should be worth...
Died. Captain John Lake Young, 84, builder in 1906 of Atlantic City's Million Dollar Pier; in Atlantic City, N. J. "Cap" Young's home, surrounded by a lawn and marble statuary, standing in the middle of the pier and over the sea, is registered in Atlantic City directories as "No. 1 Atlantic Ocean...
...comedy of Flungarian manners. The Lady Has a Heart (TIME, Oct. 4), it is Hollywood's first attempt to stereotype blonde, personably gamine French Actress Annabella. Annabella (real name: Suzanne Charpentier) was first noticed by U. S. cinemaudiences in 1931 in French Director Rene CLair's Le Million. Her first English-speaking picture was British made Wings of the Morning (TIME, March...
...compared with ten million other U. S. farmers, they are not plain. While milking the cows, Farmer Smart sings Gregorian chants. Their outdoor privy, built last year by the WPA, is decorated with colored reproductions of Toulouse-Lautrec, Laurencin, Chirico. Winters, the Smarts produce plays in Chillicothe's Little Theatre. Farmer Smart believes that the land should be socialized. His farm deficit he makes up by clipping coupons ("much less pleasant than shoveling dung"). But in common with plain farmers he wants to make his farm pay by the sweat of his own brow...