Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bass players ). after a stop at Washington. D.C.. will go to Chicago's jazz emporium, the Blue Note. Chicago is an exacting town for jazz musicians, but buxom Pia Beck is not worried. "I can always go back to Holland." she says. 'T send a thousand cats a night over there...
...very-old pros who stick close to Broadway-Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Harold Arlen, Frank Loesser, Irving Berlin, Johnny Mercer. But the million-dollar "pops" that feed the gluttony of the nation's 550,000 jukeboxes, slip through the hands of its several thousand disk jockeys, and shake the walls of dormitories and rumpus rooms are written for the most part by little-known men. They are more familiar to the Bureau of Internal Revenue, Income Tax Division, than to the public...
...helmeted garde mobile blocked the passage. As the marchers spread out into a formless crowd, a jauntily kepied high-ranking police officer held the anxious leaders in conversation. Then suddenly the big blue police vans roared down with reinforcements of police. Surrounded by hundreds of wellarmed, disciplined men, one thousand Algerians yielded and were trucked off to jail. Frisked (of knives, stilettos, pieces of steel) and fingerprinted for future reference, most were later released...
Since 1918, when the Soviets repudiated $75 million worth of czarist gold bonds sold to Americans, the Romanov two-headed eagles have theoretically been worthless. Yet hope springs eternal, and several thousand bonds are annually traded on the American Stock Exchange, where they move up and down according to the temperature of U.S.-Soviet relations. The Nazi-Soviet pact in 1939 sent the $1,000 bonds to $1.86, their bottom; the Yalta honeymoon with the U.S. (1945) raised them to a peak $220. They dropped to $20 in the 1950 cold war, rose to $125 on the strength of last...
Every effort will be made to keep instruments thawed out, band manager R. Scott Dills '57 said yesterday. The repertoire will include "Marching to Tipperary," "McNamara's Band," and "The Wearing of the Green." Only an occasional intrusion of "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" will be permitted...