Word: thousande
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bring up the question of what this money has been saved for. At the end of the fiscal year last June the Harvard Athletic Association had on hand a balance of $393,939.72. Estimates of surplus to be added to this figure this year are upwards of one hundred thousand dollars. From the total balance of approximately $520,000.00 will be subtracted the price of the steel stands, roughly $170,000, which leaves $350,000.00 still idly remaining in the H. A. A. treasury...
...Macy Company, which in the past twenty-five or forty years has grown from a little store in the lower end of Manhattan Island to an international merchandising organization, with its headquarters occupying almost a complete block in Herald Square. Its personnel ranges from seven or eight thousand in the dull season to fourteen thousand at the time of the heaviest Christmas business, and its total annual sales run almost to the hundred million mark...
Black and troubled run the waters of Alaska's Yukon River, as they always do at April's end. Cause of the Yukon's blackness: it is stuffed, crammed, jammed with malacopterygian teleosteans. By tens of thousands they are crowding upstream. Waterfalls as high as 15 ft. cannot stop them; a flirt of their powerful tails puts them over. They plunge under the face of higher falls, seeking a tail-hold for a second leap. As they hurl their sleek, silvery bodies over the falls, it is clear why they are called "salmon." (Latin salmo means...
...decided to put on a national advertising campaign. They collected $200,000, gave it to advertising men who staged a national campaign hailing PINK salmon "The King of Food Fish," who also started recipe contests- each recipe to be accompanied by a label from a PINK salmon can. Sixty thousand housewives stopped feeding Pink salmon to their cats, sent in 200,000 recipes, bale on bale of labels. By July 1, the season's left-over cans were reduced to 500,000. This year packers have collected $250,000 to use in further educating the public in the mysteries...
...murderous strife was universal and unending. . . ." Moreover, "it was not until the dawn of the 20th century of the Christian era that War really began to enter into its kingdom. j> "The War stopped as suddenly and as universally as it had begun. ... In a hundred laboratories, in a thousand arsenals, factories, and bureaux, men pulled themselves up with a jerk, turned from the task in which they had been absorbed. Their projects were put aside unfinished, unexecuted; but their knowledge was preserved; their data, calculations, and discoveries were hastily bundled together and docketed 'for future reference...