Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...irony of war gave another turn of the screw-Belgium faced a wheat short age. Monthly consumption is 100,000 tons. Reserves approximate 200,000 tons. Big shipments from South America were detained by Britain. Three Belgium-bound shiploads of barley from North Africa were unloaded in France. Seven thousand tons of maize, destined for Antwerp, were unloaded at Lisbon. It was too early to guess how Belgium's Congo mines would fare. Meantime, while Belgian purchasing commissions raced to London, Paris, Berlin, The Hague, New York, two German purchasing agents rushed to Brussels...
Through college assistance, on the average over a thousand Harvard students a year ordinarily find term time and summer employment, and in good years earn between $200,000 and $300,000 to help finance their schooling, Sharpe said...
...thousand Freshmen, selected from the largest group of applicants ever to seek admission to Harvard College, will register today in Memorial Hall...
...many thousand bodies here...
Mayor Lyons, running for re-election, although he has lowered the Cambridge tax rate by 50 cents to $41 per thousand assessor real estate valuation, faces opposition on two fronts. The police force is down on him for closing the path to advancement for many years by twenty-one receipt promotions, and Labor is angry at his refusal, for obscure political reasons, to accept Federal money for building improvements...