Word: million
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Money isn't everything, so we'll overlook her $32 million if you will print a full-length picture of Ana Maria Alvarez Calder...
...tables of statistics in Washington, crowded with numbers so immense that no one could really grasp them, one figure was simple enough to be seen, smelled and tasted: each day the U.S. was spending $15 million more than it was taking...
...Pointing Both Ways. Senator Smith would 1) turn over to a committee of generals and admirals the $75 million appropriated to oppose Communism's spread in China, 2) lend strong support to a Free China movement, 3) never recognize the Communist government of Mao Tse-tung. But chiefly he tried to fix U.S. attention on the island of Formosa, which the Nationalist government regards as its last redoubt...
...September he had ordered them into a full-scale strike which had ended in the uncertain three-week truce. Among the highest paid industrial labor in the U.S. when they work, the miners had worked only a total of 160 days in 1949. They had lost some $450 million in wages. Their $150 million welfare fund, drained by 15 months of foolish, freehanded spending, was all but exhausted and all payments had been stopped. For such mighty sacrifices the miners had gained back exactly nothing. Unable to crack the operators' united front, Lewis had had to beat a retreat...
...fraternity is much like an iceberg--only about ten per cent of it shows. There are more than a million fraternity brothers in the U. S.; about 100,000 of them are undergraduates. The rest of the fraternity men comprise graduate boards, which have consistently fought lifting bias rules. And the graduate boards pay most of the bills...