Word: millions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These accusations, foreign observers thought, were absurd. For the Chinese to check the Japanese advance at possible sacrifice of half a million lives would be a monstrous pyrrhic victory. Besides, dike-cutting is the blackest of Chinese crimes, and the Chinese Army would hardly risk universal censure for slight tactical gains. But this apparent innocence did not keep the Chinese from countercharging that Japanese had caused the flood by shelling and bombing the dikes near Kaifeng...
...Fifteen million men and women who work for a living get free medical examinations, free medical care for injuries and illness incurred in line of employment- all at the expense of their employers. The employers figure it saves them money in the long run. Last week, 1,500 doctors who look after those 15,000,000 met in Chicago for the annual convention of the American Association of Industrial Physicians and Surgeons. They figured that the yearly cost to industry due to illness of workers...
...Eleven million U. S. women work for wages...
...after Christmas 1934, Los Angeles merchants furiously chewed their holiday cigars as they read their morning papers. A quarter of a million dollars had been poured into pari-mutuel betting machines at the opening of the nearby Santa Anita racetrack the day before-the first appearance of horseracing in Los Angeles County in 25 years. That was the beginning of the merchants' woes. For 50-odd days each winter for four succeeding winters, a half million of hard-earned Los Angeles dollars were wagered every day on horse races. The more the merchants tried to discourage betting (by newspaper...
...breath and body of the News. Educated at Groton and Yale, he came through without a single inhibition. In his youth he was a storming Socialist. Today he is a plutocratic proletarian among publishers. Carelessly dressed, he rides the subways, goes to the movies with his two million readers...