Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That evening, the Communist-led Tudeh party struck in Teheran. The success of the Harriman mission would arrest Iran's march to chaos and kill the Reds' chance of taking power in a bankrupt country. Ten thousand demonstrators, shouting about "Harriman, warmonger" and "Rapacious American imperialists," rushed toward Majlis Square...
...store's huge and wonderful plate-glass windows did not make the structure unsafe. Throngs marveled at Selfridge's 130 departments, its vast restaurants, rest rooms, writing rooms and six acres of selling space. "Visitors, indeed, are guests in a palace," burbled one news story, "with a thousand servants at their disposal...
...millions of TV set owners in the U.S., only a few thousand were able to see "the world's first commercial color telecast" last week. Some were specially invited guests who saw the show on CBS colorsets provided in studios in New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston. The others were the 1,000 or so ingenious set owners who had built their own adapters and converters for as little as 30? apiece (TIME...
Their return to full participation in civilian life was authorized by General Ridgway. Fifty thousand more Japanese will eventually be allowed to come out of enforced retirement. Likely to remain banned indefinitely: 20,000 war criminals, officers of terrorist societies and members of the "thought police...
Five hundred thousand people lined the streets to see the MacArthurs arrive. Glenn McCarthy had outdone himself. He had not only strung an electric sign "Welcome General Douglas MacArthur" across the facade of the Shamrock, but had provided artillerymen who fired a 17-gun salute when the general got to the hotel. A $250-a-day suite-provided with two butlers in red tail coats and green pants-was ready for the distinguished visitor...