Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dawn last week a few thousand late revelers and early risers stood in the dim streets of Manhattan staring up into a grey-black sky. Across it, her four engines purring smoothly, soared the silvery bulk of the Hindenburg, world's largest dirigible, just in after her first crossing of the North Atlantic from Friedrichshafen. Germany. A searchlight reached up played over the fabric, came to rest on the swastikas on the rudder. Other lights on the airship twinkled back. Presently the 803-ft. sausage nosed into the haze over the Hudson, flew on toward Lakehurst, N. J. There...
...dogs to patrol the Swiss borders for the customs office and the State police. So impressed was Mrs. Eustis by the "teachability" of German shepherds that in 1928 she wrote an article about her smart dogs for Saturday Evening Post, mentioned the fact that shepherds every day led several thousand blinded German War veterans through city traffic...
...Five thousand men, bravest remnant of the old Imperial Guard, shouldered their rifles again and marched away. Tired little Haile Selassie, forgetting the raw burns on his arm, retired into his Palace for a final conference with his chieftains. The Government, it was plain, would have to move. Should it go southwest to Gore, near British Sudan...
...combat this disease in the U. S., has repeatedly asked for a $10,000,000 cancer research institution in Manhattan. With such an institution and five similar ones in five other major cities, he claims that oncologists can eventually conquer cancer which, by killing one person in every thousand each year, ranks second as a cause of death in the U. S.&* The present old cancer hospital takes care of 325 patients a day, has some 11,000 active cases of cancer on its outpatient rolls. The new hospital will care for twice as many patients a day, will surpass...
...water bottles! A thousand times NO. Merely the outpouring of a perverted mind, who, I am sure, Los Angeles would disown for such mouthings. For Los Angeles is proud of her nextdoor neighbor, conscious of our worthwhileness, our value and place in the growth of Southern California...