Word: ooo
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Biggest unknown quantity was the army-which has spent an estimated 16,-ooo lives trying to stamp out the F.L.N. guerrillas. Defense Minister Pierre Messmer and General Paul Ely, in Algiers on a "fact-finding" mission, discovered one self-evident fact: the Army's "consternation" at the possibility of an Algerian republic or a unilateral cease-fire by France. At the burial ceremony last week of ten Foreign Legion paratroopers killed in battle with the F.L.N., tough Colonel Jean Dufour, with tears in his eyes, said: "It is not possible their sacrifice has been in vain...
King shrewdly kept it that way with such success that his Times today has the largest daily circulation in Nigeria-113,-ooo. A Sunday edition, introduced in 1953, has soared past 140,000. King's papers are for and by Nigerians. Eleven years ago there were ten Europeans and 100 Nigerians on the staff; today his group employs six Europeans and 563 Nigerians...
...dancers swayed. Precisely at midnight, a mighty roar went up as a green-white-green flag was hauled aloft to replace the Union Jack. With that, Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation (36 million), became independent and took its place in the councils of the world. Solemnly, 40,-ooo voices rose in the new official anthem...
Rack or Galleys. They had brave days to remember. There are only 1,000,000 French Protestants in a nation of 43 million today, but in 1560 there were 4,000,-ooo of them in a population of 16 million. For nearly 40 years the two faiths were embroiled in bloody conflict, symbolized by the infamous St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of August 1572, during which perhaps as many as 10,000 Huguenots were murdered. The Edict of Nantes (1598) gave France's Protestants freedom of worship and academic and political rights, but by 1661 the Roman Catholic...
...August last year after his U.S.-equipped yarn mill had burned down. Mauney had seen the Japanese spinning equipment at a textile show and tested a Japanese spinning frame for three months, then bought 9.000 spindles for $500,000. The best price for nearly comparable U.S. equipment was $540.-ooo. Furthermore, the Japanese equipment eliminates a full step in the spinning process and includes extra devices worth $250,000 more. By cutting out one step in the spinning process, Mauney needed six less employees. But greater efficiency permits the Mauneys to raise the minimum wage for their 85 employees from...