Word: million
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government was spending more than half a million dollars to prepare its case, including $23,000 to fly 19 witnesses from Japan. Throughout the prosecution's opening statement last week, Tokyo Rose -slight, neat and poker-faced-sat quietly, looking more like a nursemaid than a treasonous enemy of the U.S. With her in court was her husband, Felipe d'Aquino, a Portuguese whom she married in Tokyo in April...
Tito also revealed that Yugoslavia has been seeking loans totaling $250 million from the World Bank and other Western sources. The U.S. and Britain have demanded the closing of the Greek frontier as a prior condition to granting such loans. At Pola, Tito explained: "We are not selling our conscience and our souls." Nevertheless, it looked as if somebody was selling something-on the installment plan...
When the U.S. Army asked for bids last month to supply 10.7 million lbs. of meat for troops in Germany, the most eager response came from Uruguay. Faced with a slump in the world wool market and harassed by the economic bullying of neighboring Argentina, Uruguay needed additional export business to keep its currency stable...
...skin and travels through the bloodstream to nest in and around the bladder. The infestation causes Bilharziasis (a form of schistosomiasis), resulting in passage of blood in the urine. Half of Egypt's 19,000,000 people suffer from it; throughout Africa and Asia, an estimated 400 million people have related forms of schistosomiasis...
...written off as no good. Yield ran from as low as 2 bushels an acre up to 40. The Kansas crop was almost a complete reversal of last year's "miracle wheat," where stunted, scraggly stems had borne unexpectedly huge heads, and the state's estimated 160-million-bushel harvest had turned into 231 million bushels. This year's 251-million-bushel estimate may turn out to be as much as 75 million bushels too high...