Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Construction of an auditorium-theatre that will have the double function of seating several thousand people at popular lectures, or smaller audiences for drama, music, radio, and television performances has been proposed to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
November 19--Three thousand students riot during power failur in Greater Boston area...
...anticipated total is close to 200 men less than the Fall's 4,670, and is in line with the post-war downward trend. Four thousand seven hundred men registered at this time last year, 5,100 the year before. But the final figure will still be considerably over Provost Buck's goal...
...Austrian side of the Alps was worse hit than the Swiss. Forty-five thousand people in the Austrian provinces of Tyrol, Styria and Salzkammergut were cut off from the outside world. A rumbling avalanche tore down the slopes of Gross-Glockner mountain and swallowed up the resort village of Heiligenblut. Slides killed 14 near the famous health resort of Bad Gastein. To help in rescue work, French occupation commanders placed their entire 4,000-man military force at the disposal of Austrian authorities...
...Communism and a strong regard for the U.S. On issues nearer home, in recent weeks, he called upon the President-elect to "teach Brazilians how to work," denounced "cancerous bureaucrats" and urged exploration of Brazil's oil by foreign companies ("What good does our oil do a thousand feet under the ground...