Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower proposed a new draft law last week which would cut the armed force by four hundred thousand men during the next two years, while building up a reserve of five million men and saving billions of dollars during the next five years...
...were under 19 he could enter a special program in which he would undergo training for six months and then join a standby researve for nine and a half years. Such reserves would be subject to call only in a national emergency. Over the next four years one hundred thousand men a year, presumably chosen by lot, would enter the program...
...mind or time for the niggling refinements of taste. There is too much to be seen and done, too many wonderful things in the world that might be made into movies; and away he rushes, with his intellectual pockets full of toads and baby bunnies and thousand-leggers, and plunges eagerly into every new thicket of ideas he comes across. Often enough he emerges, in radiant triumph, bearing the esthetic equivalent of a rusty beer can or an old suspender. They are treasures to Walt, and somehow his wonder and delight in the things he discovers make them treasures...
Died. Oscar ("Papa") Celestin, seventyish, oldtime hot trumpeter of New Orleans jazz, best loved in his home town of all the great Negro jazz musicians; of cancer; in New Orleans. At Papa's funeral, more than a thousand friends and ad mirers turned out while two bands of fellow jazzmen played dirges in the two-mile procession to the church...
...McMahon's Westcoast Transmission Co. Ltd. will build a 670-mile, $120 million pipeline from the Peace River Basin to the U.S. border, sell Pacific 300 million cu. ft. of gas a day at 22? per thousand cu. ft., pipe an additional 50 million cu. ft. a day to Vancouver...