Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York State revenue which is possibly the highest State revenue in the country; New York also has a two percent sales tax which places some of the tax load on the people who buy in the city. In New Jersey, the municipal tax rates range up to $100 per thousand but, just the opposite of New York, New Jersey has only tiny income and corporation taxes...
Nine hundred thousand people scrambled to see Van Gogh's first full-scale show in the U.S. (in 1935-36). Last week a repeat performance opened in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...
...spanned by U. S. army Bailey bridges set on the bombed rubble on ancient edi- fices. Inflation is particularly bad in Italy--the lira is a mere fiftieth of its prewar value. American wallets were much too small for the wads of paper money they had to hold. The thousand lire note, worth about $1.75 this summer, was the size and consistency of a large piece of Kleenex...
...this happened, Kuiper believes, about three billion years ago. It was over in a few thousand years-a mere jiffy on the astronomical timescale...
...Felix McGinnis, whose late husband was a railroad vice president (The Southern Pacific), was just as staunchly Roman Catholic. For her pretty daughter Claire, obviously nothing would do but a Catholic wedding. Ivan and Claire themselves, pious though they might be, were breathless with the thousand and one urgencies of a society betrothal. The ancient schisms of the Christian church can seem far removed, sometimes, from the exciting immediacies of Park Avenue...