Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Night Work. Last fortnight they had offered food to the people of Berlin's Western sectors if they would register and buy their rations in the Soviet sector. This offer was denounced and ridiculed in the non-Communist German press. In the first ten days of registration, only 19,000 Germans (out of 2,225,000) had signed up. When a U.S. cargo plane crashed in a city street, near Tempelhof, killing two U.S. airmen but harming no hair of a German head, the Red press denounced the airlift as a menace to German lives. The German answer...
Boyd considered using conveyor belts and moving vans, decided instead to rely on raw Princeton manpower. He hired 35 undergraduates for $1 an hour, eight hours a day. For ten weeks, in sunshine or showers, they would push book trucks down a covered ramp, connecting the old and new buildings...
Barely an hour after the shuttle started, Shakespearean Scholar Gerald Bentley wanted to lay his hands on a book about Charles I right away. He got it from Firestone in ten minutes...
...just around the corner. Two "nuclear reactors" for producing power have been authorized and should be in operation in two or three years. But the commission warns that they will not be commercial. It thinks that fairly practical plants, still experimental, will be available within ten years...
...chartered to U.S. Lines in 1946. Last week the company bought the America back for only $7,500,000-25% of it cash and twelve years to pay. Even with these easy terms, the America was obviously no bargain: the commission had to throw in a ten-year operating subsidy before U.S. Lines would agree to take...