Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said the prosecutor in Salisbury County police court last week: "It may take 1,000 years for Stonehenge to regain its old weathered appearance." Said the court: $5 fine for each culprit, costs of trial and repairs, total $95. Said the commander at Larkhill, keeping a straight face: official reprimand...
...Grigory Grinko, four major shortcomings in Soviet finance: 1) persistently low purchasing power of the ruble; 2) long arrears in salaries which the State owes to personnel of the Motor & Tractor Stations (some have been unpaid for as much as two years); 3) closing by the State of a total of 26,000 Soviet savings banks and institutions; 4) chaotic conditions in the Soviet tax system...
Weekly U. S. attendance. . .83,000,000 to 88,000,000 Weekly world attendance. . . 220,000,000 Cost of U. S. 1937-38 production . . . .$135,000,000 Average U. S. admission price. . . .22? Hollywood payroll. . . . $86,000,000 Total U. S. theatres. . . .17,541 Total U. S. investment...
...These have the effect of stretching the galaxy's "vertical" diameter to about 80,000 light-years.** The diameter across the disk is put at 100,000 lightyears. Thus, the flattish lens of the Milky Way is enclosed in a globe of stars, and the galaxy's total shape resembles a pumpkin...
...hotspot in the world: Spain, China, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Germany, Rumania, Japan, Poland. In Shanghai the war cost it 10,525 of its 50,000 phones, but most have since been regained. In Spain, where I. T. & T. has an investment of $67,000,000, about one-fifth its total, the system is still in good order because both Rightists and Leftists need it, but whether I. T. & T. will ever again get the $3,000,000 annual profit it used to make is no more certain than the war's outcome...