Word: tensed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶London's famed "Gold Rush" (TIME, Feb. 22) continued, the English hastening to sell their hoarded gold sovereigns (worth 20 shillings) for 28 paper shillings. Tens of thousands of English gold coins were shipped every day to Paris, where frugal Frenchmen bought and stuffed them into socks, clocks and...
Naturally gratifying to TIME, the letters constituted an indictment of Radio on a charge of failure-to-provide. That tens of thousands of listeners should protest so violently against the disappearance of any one commercial program as one of the few fit for adult consumption, was testimony to the leanness...
"These men . . . want $75,000-$25,000 in $20 bills, $25,000 in tens and $25,000 in fifties. . . . If you refuse to pay I will be blinded and the Negro killed. You will be told where to take the money. They want money and you might as well give...
Only one Japanese newspaper, the Tokyo Asahi, attempted to present the opposition viewpoint. The War Department held up its despatches until every other paper had scooped its Manchurian news. Circulation dropped by the tens of thousands. The Asahi capitulated.
"It is profitable to the Foxes and the Boxes. Mr. Fox burns a few trainloads of grain in order to raise the price of corn. Mr. Box gives orders to spill tens of thousands of bottles of milk into the river in order that milk may not be sold too...