Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Word has come from E. Haldeman-Julius, of Girard, Kansas, publisher of the famed Little Blue Books, that TIME'S Press story on him in the Aug. 8 issue produced a fine response. "I must have heard from two thousand people by now," he said. "People wrote ordering books, sending in manuscripts, asking for racks full of books to sell. I heard from French Morocco, Brazil, and everyplace...
...past two months, as they have each summer since the war, modern Romans and visitors have been swarming out to the Baths of Caracalla, but for a different reason. Three hundred and fifty thousand strong, they have gone to the majestic reddish brick ruins to see Rome's summer opera, one of the most dazzling sights, if not sounds, in the world...
...music. In the surging tumult that followed, at least eight automobiles were overturned, scores of women ran screaming into the woods for safety. The veterans threw up hasty roadblock's but new arrivals piled into the fight until the battle grew to a slugging, shouting riot involving some thousand persons...
...thousand international "partisans of peace" descended on Moscow's Dom Soyuzov (House of Trade Unions) last week. Before a red plush backdrop bearing giant portraits of Lenin and Stalin, they acted out a Kremlin command performance of a familiar comedy...
...Keedoozle ("Key does all") idea was fairly complicated, but it boiled down to shoppers punching a key in labeled keyholes, then picking up their groceries at the cashier's desk where they were carried by conveyors. Boasted Saunders: "In five years there will be a thousand Keedoozles in the U.S., selling $5 billion worth of goods...