Word: million
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already signs that the crop, while large, would not be as big as forecast. In Iowa,the nation's biggest corn producer, the corn borer had done more damage than ever before. A dry summer had also hurt a bit. The Department of Agriculture lopped off almost 80 million bushels from its original lowa crop estimate of 662 million bushels. Then one day last week, the wind came...
...escaped the battering. This week, the Des Moines Register's farm editor reckoned that upwards of 50 million bushels was on the ground in Iowa. In Minnesota an estimated 25% of the crop was leveled...
...There were two prosecutors at the trail: the judge and the prosecuting attorney," he said. "It's an attempt to deny the existence of the working class and call the 450 million Chinese people conspirators," he said...
take the question of aid to Tito. There are a great many short-range, short-sighted arguments for giving aid to Yugoslavia--devilishly attractive arguments, the kind of arguments to which one can so easily say: "150 million Americans and the State Department can't be wrong." I believe they are wrong, wrong because they are thinking too precisely on the event, gazing rapturously at the free without noticing the nature of the forest...
...sweeping of unarticulated scenes. But "A Touch of the Times" will also let you know that there are people seriously pointing ahead towards movie-making as an art. It will show you that even in their creeping stage, these people can do a lot of things better than their million-dollar walking brothers...