Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...produce a thousand quarts of milk weekly requires 15-18 milch cows, $10,000 investment in farm, stock, and tools, two men working 14 hours a day, 365 in the year, day help in rush seasons. Weekly return on such a layout today, $40. Wage scale for union milk wagon drivers in Boston: $38 a week plus commission, three days off a month, two weeks' vacation with...
With the presence in Palestine last week of crisp, determined Lieutenant-General John Greer Dill, newly appointed Military Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Palestine, and the arrival at Haifa of a thousand British troops daily, there began with a vengeance the British Government's "mopping-up campaign" against Arabs who five months ago declared a general strike and began raising Ned in general to protest against Jewish immigration. In a brisk clash last week near Jenin between Arab citizens and British land & air forces, 53 Arabs and one British soldier were killed. All over the country Arabs were...
...Thousand Pictures...
...picturesque brilliance of the Tercentenary celebration has aroused a burst of energy in the CRIMSON photographic Board that will take long to shake. The unusual pictorial opportunities led to an immensely increased output of photographic material. Something upwards of a thousand pictures were taken in the course of the festivities and the excess initiative will force towards a return to the days when a CRIMSON pictorial was a weekly feature of the paper. The present board is all set to forge on and the advent of fresh ideas and new photographic techniques can only hasten the rise of the pictorial...
Miss Margaret Mitchell's thousand-page novel of Civil War and Reconstruction days in the South is an interesting and entertaining accomplishment. The reviewer cannot call it the best novel yet written on the Civil War because he remembers. "The Red Badge of Courage" and Evelyn Scott's "The Wave," "Gone With the Wind" is not a "deep" book; its value lies in the scope of its narrative and in its extraordinary fine re-creation of an atmosphere. Despite that it is set in times of great historic significance it is a book of persons rather than of events...