Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Amoskeag mills at Manchester, New Hampshire, once the largest, textile unit in the world, formerly employed eight thousand men. Terribly hit by the depression and southern competition, the mills were just getting back on their feet when labor troubles set in. Now only fifteen hundred of those eight thousand are being employed, by Pacific Mills, and Lewis says he is out to help these fifteen hundred. If he really has the interest of the workers at heart, let him regard the deserted buildings of the once great. Amoskeag Company as a grim reminder of what can happen...
Nothing is unusual about the seeming plethora of earthquakes throughout the United States recently, according to L. Don Leet, director of the University's Seismograph Station at Harvard, Mass. Although the recent ramblings have achieved wide newspaper attention, he said, there are actually several thousand earthquakes yearly throughout the world...
There may be something to Einstein's crooked light beams; but to shoot bullets around corners, through a barrel embedded in a propeller shaft revolving several thousand times per minute-Wow! Even if the barrel grooves would turn in the same direction as the propeller the velocity of the bullet would, in order to be effective, far exceed that of the propeller revolutions; so that, even if the bullet should manage to leave the propeller shaft, the accuracy of its aim would be as cockeyed as that of the New Year's soak trying to hit the keyhole...
...Government cars will have to arise at dawn before the Coronation and reach the Abbey by 7 a. m. at the latest. Millions of Britons will stand, sit, slump and sleep on curbstones not only the whole previous night but in all probability the night before that. Ten thousand tourists will sleep in ships on the Thames...
Historically Power goes back to Edison, Ohm and Faraday to trace the origins of the force it presents as a maladministered boon. Technically it begins with the definition of a kilowatt hour ("When this thousand-watt bulb burns for an hour, that's a kilowatt hour"). From then on, by means of a pedagogical disembodied Voice, cartoon and scenic lantern slides, motion pictures and dialog between fictional and actual characters, Power grows into a loud and lively indictment of the U. S. power business's many frauds and follies. By taking stock shares out of one pocket...