Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Archangel was captured by the Allies who immediately pushed south on five disconnected fronts. When the Armistice came, they found themselves frozen in for the winter. In January, with the temperature 30° below zero, the Red Army assaulted them, drove them back. The wounded died from exposure. Machine guns would work only from heated blockhouses. A bare hand touching metal was seared as by fire. Snow and continual darkness fought for the enemy. On March 30 occurred the "mutiny" of Company I of the 339th Infantry. So great was the demoralization of all troops that withdrawal was ordered with...
Four-thirty p. m. one day last week was a zero hour. When it came, 130 Federal Prohibition agents simultaneously launched 35 assaults along a 200-mile liquor front in the sea angle from the tip of Long Island to Atlantic City. Down they bore on hotels, road houses, garages, a Manhattan office building, a New Jersey mansion. Captured were 32 prisoners, hundreds of cases of good liquor. In mid-Manhattan a detachment entered a businesslike office where directors of a colossal liquor syndicate, said to have a monopoly of the metropolitan supply, were known to meet, plan operations, declare...
...southern hemisphere's spring sun was warming Antarctica to almost zero temperature last week. Bands of spectral light bunted the grey ice plateaux with sham festivity. The fringe of sea ice along the continent's frigid hem was softening. Soon four parties of explorers could be poking about the continent...
JOURNEY'S END-English gentlemen waiting in a dugout for the zero hour...
...building, up to 63 stories on $200-land and 75 stories on $400-land, the greater the percentage of return on investment in such a structure. The limit of profits is 10.25%. Beyond such heights, the investment returns diminish until, on $200-land, a 131-story building would return zero. A 132-story skyscraper would develop a loss...