Word: millions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Venezuelans began to spend an estimated $39 million last week as freely as if it were water. They crowded Caracas stores to buy U.S.-made pedal-operated jeeps for their small fry. They stormed bars to set up drinks for friends and strangers. They shopped for Christmas presents, clothes, champagne, even Canadian-grown Christmas trees. They dropped silver bolivars into the hands of garbagemen, messengers, menials. Even the poorest of them splurged on big hallacas (tamales made from corn, chicken, spices, meat and rice) and bottles...
Through street-corner collections, donations, special campaigns, and participation in some Community Chests, the army in the U.S. takes in some $25 million a year. Of that amount, it spends more than $18 million on the welfare of men, women & children without regard for race, creed and color. With only 42,500 members, the army spends a larger percentage of its money and effort on the welfare of others than any other single denomination. No faith in the world works harder on society's lowest level...
...hardens into rock, the magnetic particles are "frozen" so that they cannot move. The Carnegie scientists found that even when the rock layer is folded by geological forces, the magnetic particles keep their alignment, pointing accurately around the curves of the folds. Even in layers known to be 200 million years old, the rock keeps its magnetism...
Reassured by this stability, Dr. John Graham and a team of Carnegie geologists went to work. A series of rock samples 10 million to 100 million years old which they took from flat-lying strata in the western U.S. proved to have a magnetism pointing in about the same direction as present-day compass needles. The conclusion was that when the rocks were laid down as silt, the earth's magnetic field was about as it is today...
...when the geologists examined rocks from Maryland more than 350 million years old, they found that their magnetism pointed in an entirely different direction. The south-seeking ends of the magnetic particles were pointing downward as the needles of "dip circle" compasses do in the southern hemisphere. The ancient Maryland rocks acted magnetically as if they had been formed nearer to the southern magnetic pole (in Antarctica) than to the northern one (in Canada...