Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That all women should report to him the license number "of any motorist who attempts to flirt with them...
Negroes from North Carolina, coal miners from Indiana, a detachment from the Chicago Board of Trade, another composed of Oklahoma Indians, a mud-covered dozen of doughboys from Chattanooga (advertising war's discomfort), these and others to the number of 35,000 marched and countermarched last week in Louisville, Ky. at the American Legion's eleventh annual convention, a record-breaker both for spectators and for excitement...
...played by any number of persons, though six is the ideal set. One player, the Banker, starts out with little tickets representing $5000 in bank notes...
...course change their points of view; could only deplore that of the 96,000 U. S. deaths by accident last year, 24,000 were due to accidents in homes, 24,000 in industries, 20,000 in public places other than on streets and highways, and the largest number, 27,500, by motor vehicles; could try to forestall their duplication...
...into the ground, thereby sustaining the pressure and guaranteeing a long, steady but comparatively slow flow of oil; by capturing the gas and extracting its casing head gasoline contents; by selling the gas to public utility companies. Large companies, like Standard Oil Co. of California, have a number of years engaged in "recycling" and in reclaiming casing-head gasoline. Recently some of them, like Standard of California, have contracted to supply natural gas to public utilities for distribution instead of or in combination with artificial gas. Last week, Standard of California itself entered the public utility business by paying...