Word: thousande
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nine million, 500 thousand pounds of tomatoes, each of which has of itself only a trifling odor, can in passing through the streets in one day fill a city with appetizing perfume. Chicago, as yet, hardly knows of this. Only one city in the world knows what it means to smell 9,500,000 lb. of tomatoes in one day. That city is Camden...
...tomatoes drifted through Camden's streets, a new Campbell Kitchen was getting into production in Chicago. As yet the Chicago Kitchen is barely under way, but it covers 22 acres, will have eventually a capacity as great as that at Camden, not to mention the advantage of being one thousand miles nearer the millions of soup-bibbers who dwell west of the Mississippi River...
...miles. The air distance traveled by the Sun God was approximately 10,000 miles. The added distance resulted from the pilots having to detour some bad weather spots. "At Rock Springs in the heart of the Rocky Mountains we found it necessary to fly between ten and twelve thousand feet. . . . Bad air at North Platte made refueling almost impossible. . . . Over the Allegheny Mountains we got the customary storms. We would start to fly west and get a storm signal. We would then start back for New York and get storm signals. It seemed as though storm signals were all around...
...Captain of the French Liner Paris. Last week, as New-Capt. Pugnet was preparing to make his first westward voyage as her Captain, the Paris mysteriously caught fire at her berth at Havre. Rugs were spoiled, handsomely furnished first-class cabins charred, the grand staircase almost demolished. One thousand U. S. tourists were forced to search frantically for other passage. The accident was the Paris's third in the last 18 months...
...Five thousand advertising potentates from 20 countries left Berlin last week after four days of concentrated speech-applauding, back-patting, beer-quaffing, sightseeing. Contours of the International Advertising Convention included...