Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Said Gordon W. Reed, chairman of small-sized Texas Gulf Producing Co.: "Where the price of gas will end, no one can predict right now, but it is definitely going to reach its economic level. Prices to producers in the Southwest could go up another 5/ or 6/ a thousand cubic feet [roughly 55%] without affecting consumers' prices- in the North...
...thousand, two hundred and seventy five married students out of 2,375 registered with the University replied to the AVC questionnaires...
Half a Million Hindus. From a population of some 2,000,000 before partition, Calcutta had in two years become packed with about 7,000,000 people. Biggest addition: the Hindu refugees from Eastern Pakistan, who last week were still crowding in. Five thousand Hindus were camped in Calcutta's Sealdah railroad station, ragged, stupefied and sick. In spite of efforts of relief workers there were 70 new cases of cholera, typhoid and dysentery every day. A volunteer made the rounds taking down depositions from refugees. One emaciated little man dictated haltingly: "My name is Harun Donath...
...could deny that Ted was great, but some players, scores of sportwriters and not a few thousand fans thought that he was also a great pain in the neck. They rode him for blurting that his 1940 salary of $12,500 was chicken feed for a star of his magnitude, and for saying, in a rare moment of complete discouragement, that he would rather be a fireman than play baseball. The fans razzed him for seeming to loaf in the outfield, and for ignoring the tradition of tipping his cap to the applause after he had hit a home...
From Yucatan came news that a large aluminum disc had been seen whizzing by at an altitude of a thousand feet. The most magnificent dispatch came from the northern state of Zacatecas: a farmer had found a large kite-shaped object in the mountains, with two passengers, each just under two feet tall. The Department of National Defense solemnly denied the existence of the midget visitors...