Word: ooo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work, President Roosevelt squiggled his signature to the Naval Appropriation Bill providing $460,000,-ooo, of which $20,690,000 will go into new fighting ships...
...Holland Tunnel policeman who had sold "Duggie" for $6.500 a half interest in his ticket on the winning horse got only $82.000. A 7-year-old Manhattan schoolboy won $75,000 with a ticket on Easton. A Long Island City mailcarrier sold his ticket on Colombo for $51,-ooo, the amount he would have won had he held it. A Manhattan janitor supplied variations in the usual lottery story by discovering, after his name had been given to the Press as winner of $75,000 with a ticket on Easton, that the ticket was not really his but another...
...spent $67,600,000 to reduce the U. S. wheat crop for 1934. At the same time the Department of Agriculture gave out its May estimate for the winter wheat crop:- 461,000,000 bu., which was 31,000,000 bu. less than the April estimate and 171,000,-ooo bu. less than the five-year average. There was little connection between the expenditure and the shrinkage, for a crop reduction agent more potent than AAA was at work. From Saskatchewan to Texas, from Montana to Ohio hardly any rain had fallen for a month. As dry day followed...
...mother. "He's innocent. Step-mother ran around lots, but pa did not mind. . . . He's an old and innocent man." When Otto Kruger sees the picture of the lady in question, he gurgles rudely, and then orders the girl and his junior partner to leave. "My love, ahhh, ooo." And he crushes the picture and frame and glass as gracefully as he would squeeze a rancid orange...
...ooo omitted...