Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been pressed into service," said the article. "Furthermore, only the hulls are constructed in yards, while all internal equipment, superstructure, armaments and the like are built in the interior of the country. The time required for construction, from keel-laying to commissioning, is therefore extremely short. . . . A sufficient number of reserve crews has already been trained so that there are no difficulties on the delivery of the new vessels...
Medical directors will receive "nominal salaries." Doctors will be paid a lump sum every three months, based on the number of patients they have treated and the kind of services they have ren dered. They will treat patients in their offices until the organization can build a clinic. If the plan prospers, the directors hope to engage a staff of doctors for full-time services...
...most air forces and most airlines, when a pilot nears his landing field he calls the ground, asks for the "Kollsman number." What he gets is the atmospheric pressure in that area, necessary to adjust his altimeter, which actually is nothing but a barometer graduated in feet of altitude...
...were worth $1,190,000, plus either 35,000 more shares of the same common stock or $1,000,000 more of the same preferred. Also Paul Kollsman will receive $20,000 a year as technical adviser, and Kollsman products will still be called Kollsman. Apparently the Kollsman number is $4,000,000 plus...
...fire department arrived on the scene almost immediately, and did yeoman service amid the lusty cheers of a large crowd. Mattresses, lamps, books, clothing, and badly-charred chairs were thrown out of the window. A number of bystanders narrowly escaped serious injuries from the debris which poured out of the burning suite...