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Word: digits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...that with 6% of the world's population, the U. S. has 70% of its life insurance. James Lee Loomis, president of The Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Hartford said $108,500,000, 000 life insurance will be in force at the end of the year?first twelve-digit figure of U. S. finance. Of this, $18,500,000,000 will be the 1930 new business. This year $2.200.000,000 is being paid out, a gain of $238,000,000 over 1929. Of every 100 lives in the U. S., 54 are insured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: 18.5 New Billions | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

...TIME of Dec. 23 you quoted Sir James Hopwood Jeans's formula for remembering the value of Pi to the fourteenth decimal as "How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapter involving quantum mechanics,'' each word-length indicating a digit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 13, 1930 | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

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