Word: ooo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Universities of Georgia and Ten nessee are shaking up their programs to suit local needs. Georgia is spending $150,-ooo this summer for research in bee cul ture, meat curing, grass culture, artificial insemination of cattle...
G.I.s returning from overseas duty began arriving at 35 hotels in Miami Beach, three others in Santa Barbara, Calif. Within a fortnight, others in Asheville, N.C., Lake Placid, N.Y. and Hot Springs, Ark. will be opened. (Total capacity: 17,-ooo-less than 1% of Army Ground Force and Service Force troops now overseas...
...bearing on relative purchasing power. The actual value of the ruble varies from article to article, depending on scarcity and Government decree. A pair of shoes worth $5 may cost 300 rubles. A pound of butter worth 52^ may cost 167 rubles. A fighter plane worth $120,-ooo may have an arbitrarily fixed value of 100,-ooo rubles...
...FEPC, and the Democratic Party, are under equal pressure from Negroes. FEPC, itself, was established as the result of a Negro threat in 1941 to march, 50,-ooo strong, on Washington. The threatener: Florida-born, New York-educated A. (for Asa) Philip Randolph, 54, who, though no porter himself, runs the airtight sleeping car porters union. He has been the main author of the relentless pressure on FEPC ever since. In political terms, if FEPC moves forward, it is damned by Southern Democrats; if it stands still, it receives the scorn of the Negro population-and may lose...
Gene Sarazen, Golden Age golf champion, sold his 200-acre Connecticut farm to radio's Gabriel Heatter for some $85,-ooo, said he was through with "serious" golf for good, had got rid of the farm to concentrate on selling precision tools. Now 41, he observed: "Pretty soon it won't be a question of whether I can play four rounds in a championship but whether I can walk them." Henry Krakow, who as "King Levinsky" was a notable clown among the heavyweights (and lasted 141 seconds with Joe Louis), was picked up in Detroit for Chicago detectives...