Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with speakeasies running in a thousand Manhattan basements, Frank Costello threw his bankroll into the rum trade. It was an enormous and complex business which involved the systematic bribery of thousands of policemen, the timed dispatching of speedboats and trucks, the direction of sales and bookkeeping staffs, the printing of fake labels, the operation of cutting plants and the purchase of fortunes in whisky. To the tough hoodlums who were its soldiers, it was also extremely hazardous...
...Philip Kastel, which is my associate, to go down there and work the thing out. He went down and he incorporated . . . [Huey Long] wanted to get himself about 25 to 30 thousand dollars per year to donate toward some fund . . . There was supposed to be a tax to the state and that tax was going to some relief of some kind . . . That was his proposal, but it never happened because he died." How did Costello happen to be singled out for so profitable a deal? "Maybe I was the lucky one," he dryly told the jury...
...thousand pounds of turkey win forsake their barnyard homes tomorrow for a place on the various University dining hall tables. Dining Halls Manager William A. Heaman announced yesterday...
...reader of that Publisher's Letter, Elliott Macrae, president of E. P. Dutton, thought that we should make a book of the recipes we had received. We thought so, too. Although there were about a thousand recipes on hand, we decided to get some more. A second request to women readers in the U.S. and overseas evoked another enthusiastic response-and 1,000 more favorite recipes. All 2,000 of them were turned over to Home Economist Florence Arfmann for sorting, testing, and the final selection of the 230 that now make up the recipe book...
...Harvard and Yale, no longer names to conjure with in football, need not care what people think in New York or Ann Arbor or Palo Alto today. The sixty thousand here in the Bowl won't care, that's for sure; players and coaches too can forget the people outside for two hours this afternoon...