Word: ooo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was the Japanese plan. Its execution would not be so simple. The Dutch had a mobile Army of perhaps 50,000 well-armed white and brown troops, 50,-ooo not so well armed. "Some thousands" of Australian, British and U.S. soldiers were on the island, and probably were held for last-ditch shock attack. Short of artillery, short even of ammunition for the various calibers of Dutch, U.S., British, Swedish, German and Italian rifles, pistols and machine guns, the Dutch ordnance men had made much out of little. They juggled rifle parts to fit their ammunition supply. For armored...
Competent Major General George Grunert, whom MacArthur superseded as commander of U.S. Army Forces, had laid the ground work for vigorous defense before he left. MacArthur set about bringing his more than 20,000 Filipino regulars under U.S. command and prepared for the gradual incorporation of more than 125,-ooo Filipino reserves. Racing against time, MacArthur demanded, and began to receive, a sizable trickle from the spigot of U.S. production. Transports threaded the maze of the island waterways, bringing U.S. troops, planes, technicians, tanks. Out of the East, Flying Fortresses roared to secret concentrations within the islands...
...that time New Yorkers looked seriously at the facts of Harlem life: ^ Harlem covers three square miles in the northern section of Manhattan above Central Park. It is an anthropologist's heaven, bulging with a population of 250,-ooo American, African and West Indian Negroes, 125,000 Puerto Ricans, 150,000 Italians, Chinese, Filipinos, East Indians, Haitians...
...Steel earnings held steady: $34,313,-ooo against...
After a reshuffle, BMI distributed $150,-ooo for radio performances alone to over 1,000 publishers and composers. For radio sheet music and mechanical rights it sent $6,000 apiece to its highest paid trio-Joan Whitney, Hy Zaret & Alex Kramer-who are responsible for So You're the One, It All Comes Back to Me Now and My Sister and I. For You Walked By, Songbirds Bernie Wayne and Ben Raleigh picked up $4,000 each. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. and Kenrick Sparrow drew $81.84 apiece for The Rest of My Life...