Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, Mayor Hynes proposed one of the highest city tax rates in the country, $72 per thousand. His campaign speeches had promised to keep the tax rate steady by a $1.5 million saving in expenditures, but decreasing property assessments and expanding services have prohibited this...
...remember our EDUCATION section's story on the New York City school strike last year. Several thousand students marched to City Hall to protest denial of a $600-a-year pay raise for teachers. With our story ran a picture of a mounted cop trying to hold back the laughing, waving crowd of high-school kids. USA printed the picture months later, captioned along a now-familiar Communist line: "In New York's Union Square a monster rally for peace was staged, which, in spite of all attempts by police to break it up, turned into a powerful...
Another urgent problem is to carry out last year's decision to switch from British to U.S. arms. As fast as her present British-type equipment can be turned over to West European troops, Canada is replacing it with U.S. arms. Five thousand M-1 Garand rifles arrived recently to replace .303 Enfield rifles with which the Canadians helped outfit a Netherlands infantry division in December. Last week, at Eisen hower's request, a Luxembourg field artillery regiment was being supplied with two dozen 25-pounders; 105-mm. howitzers will take their place. When standardization is complete, Canadian...
...trouble began four years ago when certain small-time gambler, identified only as Senor Delgado, took to studying the whims and behavior of roulette wheels in the small casino at nearby Necochea. Recording several thousand consecutive turns of a wheel, he found that eight or nine numbers seemed to turn up more frequently than the others. By playing a pattern of the high-frequency numbers and rechecking his computations, he began to win modestly but consistently...
...paper's declined to run the ad, which offered to write themes on any subject up to 5,000 words for a fee of $5 per thousand words...