Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beneath triumphal arches, about 350 Communist trucks roared through Tibet into the Forbidden City of Lhasa last week, along two new main roads from Red China. Thirty thousand Tibetans gathered before the legendary Potala palace to greet the trucks, which symbolized their first main road contact with the outside world. Communist authorities paid tribute to the eternal friendship between Red China and Tibet, which the Communists had conquered in 1951, and decorated the workers who had drawn the new highways across the roof of the world...
...under the new program as standby reservists would not be eligible for the benefits of the G.I. Bill. In training they would receive only 30 dollars a month compared to 78 for draftees. If in the next year the number of men on active duty decreased by one hundred thousand and if an equal number of men joined a standby reserve, the government would save an estimated five hundred million dollars in pay alone...
...death. We must rise and we must act, and not in the traditional manner. They have their laws, but their laws are illegal. Our real place is at the head of the country." He ended with an appeal to join his crusade. "Make the sacrifice of a thousand-franc bill," cried Pierre Poujade. "Think of your responsibilities!" Million-Dollar Take. So far, some 400,000 Frenchmen in nearly every section of France have made the sacrifice, providing Poujade with a prospective treasury this year of some 400 million francs or more than $1 million. In return, Poujade provides tax-evasion...
...their mustard-colored uniforms and jaunty green berets, the Binh Xuyen of Saigon are probably the most exotic mob of hoodlums in Asia. Four thousand strong, they are the shock troops of the Saigon police, an empire of their own within the South Viet Nam state...
...life-insurance business, equality of rates has long been a carefully protected tradition. No matter what amount of insurance a man bought, he paid the same price per thousand as any other customer with the same age and health rating. But recently a wave of price-cutting has swept through the life-insurance business, a procedure as shocking to many insurance men as discount houses have been to most retailers. What has happened is that most big insurance companies have started giving quantity discounts on what they call "specials." New York Life Insurance Co. and Equitable Life Assurance Society...