Word: million
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they skimmed off $275 million annually in dividends and interest, many U.S. investors wondered why more Canadians didn't get in on a good thing. Was there a lack of Canadian capital? Up to a point, there was, but the shortage was partly due to a shortage of Canadians (12.8 million v. 148.5 million U.S. population). Moreover, many a Canadian in the chips wanted to play it safe. He put his money in the more conservative wood pulp, paper and textile industries, left such speculative fields as oil to gambling Americans with specialized know...
...Secretariat alone would cost some $21 million to construct. For its money, U.N. would doubtless get an efficient workshop. Would the glass & marble shell also look monumental enough for the purpose? Argued the FORUM: "In Washington, a hundred years ago, monumentality was columns. On the East River, now, it is construed as serenely simple geometry, akin to the pyramids...
...Miami, the Knight-owned Herald (circ. 186,166) and the Cox-owned Daily News (circ. 88,223) take turns denouncing gamblers and racketeers who do a reputed $100-million-a-year business in Dade County. Most Miamians ignore the periodic newspaper crusades; they seem to feel that the gamblers are only giving well-heeled tourists the fling they want...
...company, which had spent only $7,500 on advertising in 1939, splurged much of its $1,000,000 ad budget pushing the new "bold look." It ran sales up to a new high of $23.7 million (though, with higher costs, the net slipped to $1,000,000), second to Cluett, Peabody's (TIME, Oct. 11). Convinced that he has a winner in his new wrinkleproof collar, Phillips plans to push it with his biggest ($1,500,000) advertising campaign...
Very few objections can be raised to the project. Because it would be a toll highway, the 60 to 75 million dollar cost would be assumed by the users. And inasmuch as most of the cross-state travelers will come from other states, the pike would cost Bay Staters almost nothing. When the tolls have paid off the bonds, the road would become completely free...