Word: million
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...northeastern seaboard, upwards of a million people will follow the game by radio and television, with Harvard and Yale men across the nation receiving joint reports through news tickers provided by alumni associations and clubs of both colleges...
Yale's memorial to its World War II dead will combine the Harvard idea of a memorial plaque with a $10 million scholarship program...
...market's companies, all privately owned, keep their net earnings secret, but last year, with a boost in sales because of high meat prices, they had an estimated gross of more than $85 million, up 20% over prewar. Last month, when meat prices began falling, fish sales held up and in some cases even increased. Fishmen decided that "people had to eat so much of our stuff during the war that they finally got fond of it. It's the only food that hasn't been fouled up by being vitaminized, tenderized or homogenized." This year...
...richest men, reputedly learned to bargain in the rug bazaars of Turkey. So it was no trick for him to block a deal for Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) and Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. in the Middle East. The two oil companies had offered to pay upwards of $150 million for a 40% share in the Arabian American Oil Co.'s Saudi-Arabian concession (TIME, Dec. 23, 1946). Before the deal was made, Trader Gulbenkian wanted...
...sugar-cured") than he could escape himself if he were locked up in a padded cell. One chapter, "Holm, Sweet Holm," tells the reader how wonderful wife Eleanor is, how she makes him behave like a gentleman, stops him from buying candied apples on sticks (because they have "nine million calories"), and even prods him into picking up porous fragments of Culture. Another chapter, containing warmed-over stories of the kind O. Henry froze into a formula, is called, modestly enough, "Move Over, De Maupassant...