Word: millions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guess is that the U. S. could have within one year a semi-trained, citizens' voluntary reserve force of two or more million men at least, if official approval and public encouragement were given to such a movement...
...Asiatic mainland, can now envisage a connection with [Britain & France] which she was indisposed to make so long as Siberia was open to attack." >President Roy A. Cheney of the Underwear Institute announced in Philadelphia: "The underwear industry is prepared and in line in case of war. Several million shirts and drawers would be needed. . . . We will have the same prosperity...
Among noted Gruger men are light-handed, prolific Wallace Morgan and the immensely successful Arthur William ("Brownie") Brown. As illustrator for Tarkington, Kelland and other light fictioneers, popular, saturnine Artist Brown made a cool Wall Street million before it melted down in 1929. At 58 he says he is doing it again. Other illustrators like to kid Brown about his draftsmanship, but the laugh is on them. There is some quality in his clean-cut youths and pretty girls that fits the American Dream...
...Last weekend, the $1,000,000 Glass Center building was damaged by fire. First reported in true World's Fair spirit as a million-dollar loss, the damage actually came to a few thousand dollars...
...nation-wide figures are disheartening. In 1938 two and a half million youths failed to attend school. Even more serious is the fact that of seventy million adults, no less than sixty-four million had never finished high school. Enlightened America is found to be lacking schools and money and well-trained teachers. In 1935 forty-two thousand schools had not the funds to complete their year...