Word: millioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Allotropic forms of six elements, produced under pressures of three-quarters of a million pounds per square inch, is the most recent contribution to science by Percy W. Bridgman '04, professor of Physics...
...Broadcasting System bought a like amount of the Roosevelt brand of insurance. In his first year with Sargent, James acquired $67,000 worth of independence. Business improved each succeeding year until James-now the richest of the Roosevelts excepting possibly his grandmother-is estimated to be worth half a million dollars. And the end is not in sight: James resigned the presidency of his firm when he went to work at the White House, but he still draws half the profits...
...Motors' Alfred P. Sloan Jr. created the $10.000,000 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation last year to disseminate "economic truths,'' cynics sneered that he was "incorporating General Motors' publicity department." His brother, Harold Sloan, made director of the foundation, proceeded to purify one of the ten millions by turning over its income to University of Chicago (TIME, Jan. 17). He startled the cynics still further by giving the income from another million to Stephens College (Columbia, Mo.) for consumer education. Conservatives and radicals began to rub their eyes incredulously when they learned three weeks ago what Harold...
...inflation is commodities. Accordingly, in February 1935 they set up what they believe to be the first commodity investment trust in the world, called it Commodity Corp. Last week, after two years of "laboratory testing" in Boston, Commodity Corp. moved to Wall Street with assets of nearly half a million dollars in its coffers and big plans in its brief case...
...unemployment census directed by John D. Diggers revealed that in mid-November the number of jobless was estimated at (1 twenty-five, 2 twenty, 3 seventeen, 4 eleven, 5 four) million...