Word: million
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apparent that the government has spoken most rashly, labor has forfeited its right to voice opinion because of the unlawful violence which has accompanied many strikes and followed, after successful negotiation, many more. A well-known trade magazine showed that labor violence forced 58 plants, representing 200 million's worth of capital and a half million in Social Security taxes, to close for keeps--statistics which Washington admitted it makes no effort to collect. Unions cannot afford to be divided, to hold Communistic and racketeering elements, nor to coerce the free will of their members...
...least half the drivers of the 28,500,000 motor vehicles that crowd U. S. roads are conscientious, careful motorists who in no way contribute to the nation's half-million yearly highway casualties. Being considerate of themselves and others, they represent types most likely to insure against accident. And long have they complained that some way should be found, as in parts of Europe, to compensate them for their safe driving records. Last week the 38 big companies that comprise the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters found the way, announced that all their policy holders carrying...
Before 1929 some steps had been taken to solve Manhattan's intolerable traffic problem, immensely snarled by half-a-million daily commuters and the influx from twelve highways, led by great U. S. national No. 1. But not until the Depression loosed the public purse strings for work-making public works was there real accomplishment. Open for business 24 hours a day last month were five and one-half more miles-from 72nd Street to the George Washington Bridge-of the peripheral express highway which will someday ring Manhattan, vastly relieve the pressure of internal and through motor traffic...
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo (Twentieth Century-Fox). Warner Oland, still cinema's most dependably entertaining detective, liberally equipped with aphorisms in pidgin English and accompanied by his No. 1 son, Keye Luke, interrupts a vacation to find out who stole a million dollars in bonds...
When opponents of the bill halfheartedly asserted that it was impossible to remove three or four million people from a large city without causing a panic, a Hoare supporter croaked: "It is easier to do it before they are stretcher cases than afterward." Without a single dissenting voice the bill was passed...