Word: number
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court of Judicature Act increased the number of puisne judges that may be attached to the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court, enabling it to handle an increased volume of divorces arising from the passage of the Matrimonial Causes Act which last year broadened the grounds of divorce (TIME...
...Cinematograph Act upped on a new sliding scale, the number of films U. S. producers must make in the United Kingdom. For each 100 films shown, 15 must now be British-made and in ten years this figure will have climbed...
...photographed in Hollywood with Mae West, and was the guest in Washington of Mr. & Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Last week, the Sultan again was news because, when he recently returned to Johore from a holiday in Sumatra, he had with him and seemed intent on marrying a pert number, Lydia Cecily Hill, an ex-cabaret performer who first caught His Highness' eye four years ago in London when she was legging in the Grosvenor House floor show...
During the last ten years the number of clinics and hospitals specially built to fight cancer has increased from 13 to over 200. In its advanced stages the disease is still incurable, but now a few experiments of kitchen-simplicity lend hope to sufferers...
...addition to the South's three great natural resources - cotton, coal, iron - shown in map, are its forests, its cheap labor, found everywhere. Extent of forests is implied by the pulp mills. Small figures under the symbols for pulp and textile mills represent the number of important mills in each State. Those under the cigarets equal total production in 1936 (latest figure...