Word: half-dozen
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...next half-dozen years he proved his claim. He extricated the brotherhood from 30 of its 36 fiscal schemes. But he also implicated it and himself in a messy $10,000,000 bank failure-Cleveland's short-lived Standard Trust Bank, successor to the Engineers' National...
...nonessential industry, was stopped. But last week ex-servicemen were heading north in droves. The Negus mine was already back in production. The Con mine (Consolidated Mining & Smelting) and the Giant Yellowknife mine (expected to be the area's biggest producer) would be producing soon, as would a half-dozen others. Besides, some 250 other companies, most of them new and almost all of them with the alluring word "Yellowknife"* in their names, were busy prospecting, drilling, promoting and hoping. They had plenty of reason for hope. With all its curtailments and setbacks, Yellowknife has already produced more than...
...remained skeptical. We wanted to see the clay from which the powder was made. Then a gaunt woman emerged from another kitchen carrying a half-dozen big chunks of the raw product, weighing altogether perhaps seven or eight pounds. The others looked on quietly. The woman said something to the interpreter. He turned to us and told the amazing reason why she had not shown this hoard of clay sooner: "She was hiding it from the others...
...next four trainers who spun in & out of Arden's revolving door remarked recently: "Seems we spent more money for paint than for anything else." One capable trainer, grizzled Guy Bedwell, told her off before she had a chance to tell him. A half-dozen others came & went before Tom Smith came along...
...were many and various: an accountant ($27,000), a publisher ($21,000), a music publisher ($15,-ooo), a Broadway producer ($9,000), a tobacco magnate ($5,000), a socialite ($4,500), a reporter, a broker, an actor, a housewife, a secretary ($3,000 each), a dancer ($1,000), a half-dozen others...