Word: million
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last line went out over the ether waves, listeners by the million were startled to hear a loud voice bellow "YES, MRS. SIMPSON...
Meanwhile they had to maintain double safety performance minimums. First United pilot to pass these requirements was Alexander Raymond ("Tommy") Thompson, who ran a flying school and flew mail for 14 years before joining United in 1933. Last week he had flown about a million miles, had 147 hours flying experience in a Douglas, was regarded as one of the best pilots on the Coast...
...workmen by fear and distrust, for the cost of spies is great and the increment from their use is disastrous. If it is important that the executives know what labor is up to, better systems can be devised to find out; many factories have them already. The half million dollars a year that, for example, General Motors spent on detectives bred some of the hostility and suspicion lying behind the strike. The waste of this method sticks up like a sore thumb along side the inexpensive welfare activities of such companies as Endicott Johnson, whose workers are among the most...
...Sixteen million U. S. citizens were groaning: would the Depression never end? In Kensington, England, two old gentlemen called on a young girl at six in the morning, to notify her that she was Queen of England...
...Zanuck spotted them, hired them as an adjunct to the hilarious musical Sing Baby Sing. There, especially in a Jekyll & Hyde number, they displayed their peculiar talents to perfection-part eccentric dancing, part owlish mimicry, part brutality, part a musical patter of song, pun and gibberish. One in a Million followed, then On the Avenue, which should establish them as top-flight cinecomedians. They have a normal brother and sister named Gertrude and George. They like gambling, but not together because "that's bad luck." Al is the only married Ritz Brother. Jimmy hankers occasionally for a serious role...