Word: million
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though they sometimes snorted in the process, almost all these people, and a hundred million more, read the headlines and eyed the newsreels with a sense of gratitude. It was comforting to know that the rest of the news, most of it fairly grim and overpowering, was happening to someone else...
Gordon Clapp, quiet, competent 43-year-old boss of the Government's $800 million public-power empire had something to say, all right. He had never been asked to serve in an Army job, did not even know he had been considered for one, and would not be interested if he were; TVA duties take up all of his time. Next day, the Army, realizing it had been guilty of irresponsible character assassination, beat a hasty retreat. "The Army," said its new Secretary, Gordon Gray, "has never investigated Mr. Gordon R. Clapp and has absolutely no derogatory information about...
Actually, what worried big John L. was the depressing spectacle of 70 million tons of coal above ground (enough to last the U.S. at least 55 days) in the midst of contract negotiations. This cozy backlog was nothing to inspire sweet reasonableness in the operators. In three weeks of negotiations, the hard-jawed Southern Coal Producers Association had insisted on unthinkable changes in the contract. The operators wanted the miners to give up their paid half-hour lunch periods. They even wanted to kill the clause which requires the miners to work only when "willing and able."* To the operators...
...planks off the pier, and rained down upon the hissing waters. Shells shot hither & thither, exploding under the touch of the terrific heat and shooting their missiles at random. Some of the shrapnel shells fell even in Manhattan. On the pier arose a white glare as of a million mercury-vapor lights...
...Connecticut, the highway would have a minimum speed law. From the safety angle, speedways are many times less dangerous than winding roads. On the Maine link from Kittery to Portland, for instance, there has been only one fatality since December, 1947--a score of one death for 70 million vehicle miles...