Word: millioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speech in Japan is a reality according to Hindmarsh. He explained that with permission from the War and Navy Departments, he spoke last fall in Tokio in bitter condemnation of Japanese military and diplomatic policies, a speech that was printed in newspapers with a total circulation of over nine million. From War and Navy officials came nothing but letters of praise...
...every new car a dealer sells he generally expects to have to handle one and a half to two used cars. When the used car market bogs down, dealers therefore are virtually frozen. Normally there are 500,000 used cars on the market. Last week there were about a million, 800,000 in the hands of the 46,000 new car dealers, the rest in the lots of independent used car dealers. Price cuts of ten to 25% on jalopies (trade parlance for worn-out cars) and the big batch of cars older than two years kept the used...
...when Anthony Adverse was two years old its record was shattered by Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind. Also a Book-of-the-Month Club choice, with advance orders of 76,000, average daily sales of 3,700, Gone With The Wind had sold its first million copies inside a year, 1,400,000 in its first 18 months. On one day it sold 50,000 copies. Meanwhile, in Maryland, big, serious, six-foot Author Allen had given up his New York story, started work on a Civil War romance of his own. But where Margaret Mitchell...
With water damaging Los Angeles to the extent of three million and devestating much Southern California life and property, it is easy to think that the series of floods in America constitute a westward movement. Although little truth lies in certain movie heroes became real for a day, ob-the report that the migration was paralyzed when viously the wetting Hollywood got was the biggest spectacle since De Mille threw Christians to the lions. Whether this trend will move across the Pacific next winter and submerge all nice Japanese, no one knows. If such a thing happens, the United States...
Alfaro summed up in synthesis the ideology of Pan-Americanism saying that "the significance of the solidarity of the Americas is that a great continent by the will of two hundred and fifty million people is a land devoted to political freedom whose system is cooperation, and whose supreme aspiration is to consolidate the reign of justice and good will upon the face of the earth...