Word: millioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Where they change the lights a million times a minute...
...Italian peasants had finally increased their wheat yield in 15 years from an average of under ten quintals (36.7 bu.) per hectare (2.47 acres) to somewhat over 16. Thus, without much increasing Italy's total wheat acreage, which was impossible, total yearly production was increased from 45 million quintals to 80 million. Since the Italian people continue to eat about 75 million quintals, this meant that Premier Mussolini had won the "battle of the grain" (TIME, Oct. 24, 1927), made Italy-self-sufficient in wheat for the first time in modern history...
...Last week, from the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin, it was announced that another faint star, Wolf 424† appears to be only 3.7 light-years distant. This is so close that a train traveling a thousand miles a day would get there in 60 million years...
...Public Service Co., a $20,000,000 utility in Knoxville, decided to sell out to TVA. Bickerings have gone on ever since with no results. Last week TVA and the city of Knoxville joined in offering $7,500,000 for most of the electrical properties of the company, a million and a quarter more than the previous offer. Simultaneously, TVA Director David Lilienthal let it be known that TVA may limit sales of its power to a definite area, that it was considering buying up Commonwealth & Southern's private lineage in this territory. Apparently all that remained...
...Florida jitters, an erstwhile rebellious Congress once again appears willing to caper at the Administration's whistle. It could have chosen a much more propitious time than now when the Wage and Hours Bill is pending. From the sociological standpoint, the desire of this bill to aid those two million unfortunates working under sub-standard labor conditions is commendable. From the economic standpoint, it is a continuation of an unwise wage policy based on faulty economic reasoning which has been pursued by the last two administrations...