Word: million
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bountiful Earth. New technologies which had fairly revolutionized agriculture were producing another year of bumper crops. Under man's ingenious hand, was the earth becoming more & more bountiful? Secretary of the Interior Julius Krug said he was thinking of asking for a "few hundred million dollars" to harness the sun to heating plants and farm production...
...nation was treated last week to the unique sight of an Administration official really swinging an economy ax. Secretary Louis Johnson announced a cutback in Defense Department jobs which he thought would ultimately save the country $500 million a year...
...more than 24 hours, the hurricane winds flailed nearly a fourth of the Florida peninsula, from Fort Lauderdale north to Melbourne and inland to the deep Everglades, the rich mucklands of Lake Okeechobee. The damage was tremendous ($40 million, according to one estimate), but the only fatality was a boy who drowned off Miami trying to save his sailboat...
Thanks to Television. With help from Boyd, and such other horse-opera stars as Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, one retailer estimated the trade would sell upwards of 40 million pieces of Western gear this year. About half of all boys' furnishings will have a Western touch. Though the boom has been building for several years, one big reason for the sudden upsurge is television. Unable to get current movies, TV stations have resurrected hundreds of old-fashioned Westerns...
Kaiser-Frazer Corp. stockholders had one consolation: nothing had been kept from them. When K-F President Edgar F. Kaiser reported a $5.8 million loss for the first quarter, he had predicted further trouble. Last week, K-F reported a second-quarter loss of $2,300,000 (v. $3,900,000 net in the same 1948 period...