Word: millioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, here's a question. . . . Suppose a man builds a factory and equips it with a lot of modern machinery. Say a million for the plant and another million for the equipment. Then he digs up a lot of orders and hires a force of 500 men and puts them to work making cheese or rolling pins or whatever. . . . Well, what kind of men does he get? Experts on statistics will tell you that a certain percentage are absolutely honest and want to work hard, another per cent will steal anything they can get away with, another group...
Mannequin (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When Actress Joan Crawford, in the lithe chic of a $2.98 bathing suit, adjusts her shopworn profile to a summer night and sighs to her handsome vis-a-vis, "why do you suppose the moon is always bigger on Saturday night?," a million understanding shopgirl hearts sigh with her. And when, temporarily exalted to a swank Manhattan penthouse, Joan looks over the parapet at the twinkling city, "piled up against the dark," many a less lyric lass wishes that she, too, might sometime be so pent...
...miles in diameter, could contain a million bodies the size of the earth. Yet the sun, though of higher than average luminosity, is rather on the small side as stars go, being officially classed as a "yellow dwarf." For a really big star astronomers look to Antares, a red supergiant 400,000,000 miles in diameter. All stars are globes of hot gas. Antares is relatively cool, its gaseous density very low. Thirty-seven thousand cubic feet of its star-stuff, if concentrated and brought to earth, would weigh only one pound. Yet up to last week it held rank...
...other U. S. concern has ever attempted-matching German precision in making optical instruments. Today, with some 4,000 workers and a select inner circle of German-trained craftsmen, the Rochester lensmakers turn out lenses ground accurate to a millionth of an inch, at a profit of about a million dollars a year. Since 1926 when Founder J. J. Bausch died, the company has been headed by Son Edward, chairman of the board, now 83 and still active enough to enjoy bowling. He and numerous relatives have not only run Bausch & Lomb but owned all 40,000 shares...
...wonder whether Mrs. Nieman's million dollars might not have been used better to stimulate the real "truths-papers" of America--such as the Sunday "News of the Week" section of The New York Times, such as The Christian Science Monitor, such as The New Republic and The Nation--written not scientifically or objectively, not disjointedly or dispassionately, but rather integrating events into a viewpoint of a whole life. --The Dartmouth...