Word: million
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million pounds of Mexican canned meat (bought in a deal which allowed the U.S. to invade Mexico to stamp out the foot & mouth disease...
...million bushels of wheat...
...million bushels of corn (and about 300 million bushels more expected by next...
High & Dry. Last week New York, and many of the 80 surrounding towns which suck like clustering leeches on its water lines, were getting perilously close to that unimaginable point at which water would no longer run from millions of kitchen faucets. Its dams stood high and dry above great barren expanses of frozen mud; only 33.4% of the city's 253 billion gallons of stored water was left and the supply was being relentlessly lowered at a rate of some 800 million gallons every...
Undeterred by the fact that industry-particularly breweries, laundries and power plants-gulped up almost half the city's water and that one leaking toilet could waste a million gallons a year, the patriotic launched dozens of odd water-saving schemes. Restaurants quit volunteering water with meals; citizens had to ask bravely for it or do without. A New Rochelle teacher forbade her pupils to paint with watercolors. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals turned off its 38 horse-watering troughs. Neighborhood snoops began gossiping about drips, instead of drunks...