Word: million
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fire-eating, conscienceless nationalist speaks shrilly from the past. Standing a stone's throw from the infamous Dachau, where a refugee camp now huddles, I listened to the booming voice of Franz Jilka: "Give us another war!" Jilka is one of three million Sudeten Germans driven from Czechoslovakia after the last war. He is an old Social Democrat, 64, grizzled, tough and thirsting for revenge. "Would I fight!" he exclaimed. "Give me the chance! All three million of us are waiting for the war-that is the only way we can get back our land. Give us the arms...
...million new housing units must be constructed by 1960 if the United States is to solve its housing problem," Jesse Epstein, former west coast director for the Public Housing Administration, said last night in Emerson Hall at the Graduate Forum's "New Horizons in Housing...
...office typewriter more than once by Weld Hall residents returning from late dates. His charges, which include veterans in all parts of the University, now number something over 7,000--only 2,000 below the peak of 1946-47. His office is the channel for about ten million dollars a year in government payment for education and subsistence. Although his assistant, Miss Margaret Witt, handles nine-tenths of the routine red tape difficulties familiar to all veterans, there are enough left over to keep him busy six days a week. "Just when you think you've got everything caught...
...Turning in the biggest profits of any single U. S. company in 1948 (an estimated $450 million...
...years of unbroken writing success. In all those years he has finished every book and story he ever started, has sold everything he has written except one short story ("It was supposed to be funny and wasn't"). The Satevepost alone has paid him something like half a million dollars for the no "slicks" and serials of his that the Post has published over a period of nearly 20 years...