Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conform with Moslem customs," e.g., eight hours of uninterrupted work daily, no long lunch hours, Friday instead of Sunday holidays. Even Premier Bourguiba could not resist saying, "When I see a French gendarme, I choke with anger." He fired all 2,500 French cops and customs officials and several thousand minor French bureaucrats, replacing them with Tunisians. As a result, 50,000 Frenchmen (approximately 30%) have left Tunisia for France. Several weeks ago, faced with a shortage of skilled Arabs to run his administration, Bourguiba offered the 3,500 top French officials and technicians pay and privileges far above that...
...bestseller-standards like My Blue Heaven and Blueberry Hill, and custom-tailored works like Blue Monday and I'm Walkin'. Last week his latest lament, Valley of Tears, was doing well: "Only four weeks old, and that baby is hittin' between seven and eight hundred thousand." Fats talks the words in his songs, and they can be understood-a rarity among rock 'n' rollers. The lyrics are clean, but the beat is lowdown and as basic as they come. His head-rolling piano antics never sink to pelvis level...
...About every three years some one would raise the question wouldn't we save money in General Motors if we centralized the thing and did all the buying in one big place, pointing out that the Buick company paid a few cents more a thousand for some nuts or bolts or screws or something. We would look it over again and decide no, that it wasn't the right way to do it. Our big problem was to decentralize the thing and clarify the policy, simplify the administration and promote efficiency and avoid the concentration of stupidity. That...
...admitted he had not known that Beck had borrowed huge sums from the union until mysterious repayments arrived in walloping big lumps-including $100,000 within the previous two weeks. Asked Goldwater: "Is he making much progress in paying [his loans] back?" Said McDonald: "Three hundred and seventy thousand dollars worth. That is quite a bit of progress...
...Aston-Martin sports car, a villa in Cannes, and a girl who will look just right in either. When the daughter of the local industrial tycoon pops the question, "Joe, do you really love me?" Joe coos back sweet nothings in the shape of five zeros: "A hundred thousand pounds' worth." Room at the Top suggests for the first time that the Welfare State can be used as a runway for a take-off into the upper economic air by a young man who is not too finicky about throwing his friends over the side to gain altitude...