Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ones, has two advantages. In the first place, it makes budgeting easier because of the previously announced and promised return, and secondly, the reserve fund relieves the pressure on the treasurer. As of last June, there was over nine million dollars in this unapportioned balance--just a few thousand dollars shy of the Treasurer's goal...
...Bayonet Fighter. When Templer arrived in Malaya in February of 1952, the country, like Indo-China some 200 miles to the north, was in mortal danger of being captured by Communist guerrillas. A quarter of a million troops and police were combing the jungles for a few thousand Communists. The guerrillas held the initiative, murdering and plundering at will...
...duty was paying the actors-they made more than he did. One night, hopeful of financial advancement, he injected himself into a minor role. "It was awful," he recalls. "I knew all the lines of all the parts because I'd heard them from out front about a thousand times. But I took one look at the audience and I couldn't remember anything...
...been ferried ashore through a moonlit surf from a ghostly schooner with no greater consequences than to give a dictator a mild scare or O. Henry an idea for a light-hearted story. Last week guns were again going ashore-but in a different, deadlier contest. Two thousand tons of arms and ammunition, more than all Central America has received in the last 30 years, were pouring out of the holds of a Swedish ship into Communist-infiltrated Guatemala. They were Communist weapons, almost certainly from Czechoslovakia's famed Skoda works. More were thought...
...predicted General Electric's Vice President W. V. O'Brien last week. Electronic devices will thaw frozen foods, cook them in a matter of minutes or seconds; electric incinerators will burn up the waste. Heat pumps (for both heating and cooling homes) will mushroom from the few thousand now in use to 500,000. There will be television screens that hang like pictures on the wall, connected to the set only by a thin wire...