Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reported U. S. Comrade John ("Jack") Wilson: "The Red Cells in the U. S. Navy now number ten which I regard as showing considerable progress since last year, when there were only three...
Thereafter English Comrade James Button claimed that 13 cells have been established in the British Navy; and French Comrade Barbrot not only credited himself and colleagues with a score of 14, but said that in case of need the Communist banner could be hoisted on no less than ten French warships...
When U. S. Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur was confronted with the statement that ten "Red Cells" exist among U. S. tars and marines, he smugly said...
Within two days ten billion francs ($400,000,000) of new money flowed in; and six billion francs in other government securities were exchanged for the new issue. Since this latter process-"consolidation" of previous higher interest bearing securities into the new loan-was the end chiefly sought by Prime Minister Poincaré, he announced on the second day of scrambling that no further cash subscriptions would be accepted, but welcomed further conversion which continued steadily all week...
...accompanied by 125 camels, eight motor trucks, many horses and Chinese boys, seek the western wastes of Gobi hoping to uncover secrets of man's origin. This is the fourth expedition of its kind. The last one, 1923, returned with the fossilized eggs of the dinosaur, aged some ten million years. The present expedition will collect lower animal fossils when found under foot, but the main interest will centre on recent prehuman ancestors not older than three million years...