Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thinks), uses much of the national revenue in the maintenance of the elements of the system's machinery-the army, the state police, censorship, the Catholic Church, the corporative agencies, the União National (Government's Party) and the propaganda bureaus. With a few hundred thousand collaborationists, dependent on the regime, he keeps the other part of the people impotent. But this is his "victory": in exchange for fiscal stability, the Portuguese people have lost much of their vitality and personality. As a result of 27 years of well-masked dictatorship, the Portuguese people are now tired...
What made Bridges' unionists tighten up was a crowd of a thousand angry A.F.L. men marching through the mist toward Pier 39. They were armed with two-by-fours, baseball bats wrapped in newspaper and lengths of chain. As they approached the pier, the shout went up: "Let's push those goddam Commies off the wharf! Let's get our men off the ship...
Conversation Piece. Only 200 men showed up for work next day. Then, when management threatened to fire all who did not report to work, 50% of the workers yielded. Two thousand men in black berets hung around outside the gates in silence. "Sorry, friend," said one worker as he left the plant at night, eyes cast down. "The woman has no money for the market." A striker answered without hostility: "I know, brother. I am lucky. I have no family...
Grand Hotel. At a $75,000 white-tie party last week, the President formally opened the 400-room Hotel Tamanaco in the capital city of Caracas (pop.: 800,000). Two thousand guests drank champagne and Scotch, nibbled at 6,500 lbs. of meat and fowl. They were entertained by Parisian Chanteuse Patachou (who got $10,000 for a week's work). Colonel Pérez Jiménez, dressed in a braid-crusted white tunic and black trousers with a crimson stripe, himself danced the first rumba...
Should the Administration deny the use of Memorial Hall to freshmen, the gala Smoker would be a thing of the past. Nowhere else in the University is there a place suited to hold over a thousand, fun-loving, rollicking freshmen. The sanity and reservation inherent in mass fun would lose itself in the cramped confines of individual suites. And the playful inanity of both the elections and entertainment would promptly cease...