Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eighteen thousand moneyed "metropolitanites" in Manhattan have: 1) $10,000 to $25,000 a year in income; and 2) "the common denominator of swift spending that barely catches up to their expanding wants." A family with $18,000 a year may spend $2,000 to $3,000 for rent; $1,800 to $2,100 for food; $900 for a nurse; $300 to $350 for liquor; $900 for a maid; $100 for flowers; $1,500 to $2,000 for clothes; $1,800 for life insurance, savings; $1,000 to $1,200 on the man's "cash expense at business...
Some 30 years ago sleek, bandboxical "Dapper Don" Collins began looting telephone boxes, soon graduated to blackmail, stock swindles, fraud, rumrunning. By the garish '20s he had a yacht, rolls of thousand-dollar bills, a long police record, a beauteous consort (Helen Patterson Heywood, who divorced her husband for him). Last week, friendless, feeble, finished, 59-year-old Dapper Don went to Sing Sing to serve 15 to 30 years. His crime: a piddling swindle. Said he: "I've been around, but today I'm just an old reprobate...
...Royce's dance with live doves at the Crystal Palace, which ends in purple shadows and a lightning-quick strip; 2) the Crystal Lassies show, where, one at a time, semi-nude girls do semi-classical dances in a domelike hall of mirrors which reflects their images a thousand times over & over...
...Fifty thousand patents are issued in Washington every year. The vast majority of these are flops; most important inventions are made by hired technicians in industrial laboratories. But the average member of the National Inventors Congress is an obdurately optimistic freelance who never loses hope that he will hit on something magically profitable...
...have a better right to be proud of the larger body of your class who, without any claim to fame or fortune, have faced and fought through two of the greatest national crises in America's history. Those men, dragged from their first jobs into a mass murder three thousand miles away, brought back to meet a hysterical nation who thought its future was its bankroll, forced to sit helplessly by and watch their financial underpinnings swept away, of those men who are now trying to restore and rebuild, each in his own way, you can be proud...