Word: millions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Million Measurements...
...last year the cast presented the play at Chicago. Early in the year the Union conducts rooming and employment agencies, and has been very successful along these lines. As to the future of the Union, the goal is at present the securing of money for the erection of a million dollar club house, the plans for which represent it as one of the best of its kind...
...Miss Todd went to California where she assisted in gaining the vote for women in that state. The statistics show that the very wealthy and very illiterate men of California voted against Woman suffrage and that it was the average man who put the measure through. Of the four million women voters in the United States at present, about 700,000 are women of California. They are not affiliated with any political party but their votes are cast solidly for all Woman Suffrage measures, the aim of which is to pass legislation that will benefit human life...
...University and the museum he gave more than a million and a half, and more will ultimately revert to that cherished institution. He wrote: 'I want to go down as the man of science and not to be temporarily known by a kind of cheap noteriety as an American millionaire...
...higher and yet higher rates of insurance. In the fiscal year 1910-11 we paid for the support of our army and navy over 43.3 percent, of our total expenditures, and 24.1 per cent, more for pensions, the burden of past wars--a total of over 440 million dollars--enough to build two hundred Widener libraries. The only possible way to stop this mad race of nations apparently trying only to discover which can bear the greatest burden of taxation, is to end the race. The United States would perform a higher mission than every before were...