Word: millions
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...climb the mountain-high problems ahead of him last spring. His country's best land had been handed over to the enemy. The best of its male youth was dead or disabled. Shortages of food, medicine and clothing were tying up the task of resettling half a million refugees from the ceded areas. And the rest of the world, which had loudly applauded Finland's gallant fight last winter, turned its sympathies to new underdogs in the fall. Though free and independent, Finland was thoughtlessly classed with the conquered and occupied countries of Europe. Its relief problems were...
Said the Doc last week: "Canterbury began on an $8,000 shoe string. Today it is a million-dollar educational plant devoted to the cause of Catholic Action . . . only school of its kind, really. . . . Sometimes I can hardly believe Canterbury is what it is today...
...Million-volt X-rays, like tigers, are safer when caged. The walls of the 100-ft.-by-35-ft. building housing the machine are 14 inches of concrete plus twelve inches of brick. At one end of the room is a big door of 18-inch concrete encased in one inch of steel. When the machine is ready to go, the researchers leave the room through this door. Then the machine is turned on at a remote control panel...
...sale did not mean that Climax was broke. Since steelmen recognized molybdenum's .value in making tough, rugged alloys, Climax has become the biggest thing in Leadville as well as in the "moly" business, has paid almost $26 million in dividends in the last five years. The company had $8,678,521 in the bank at the beginning of 1940. But Climax refused to pay what it considered an exorbitant...
...Lake County officials set Climax's taxes at $101,259, had no trouble collecting. In 1939, they quadrupled the company's assessed valuation (from $4 million to over $16 million) and almost tripled Climax's bill, although the tax rate was lowered. When the county advertised the mine for sale to satisfy the tax claim, Climax advertised too, warned any bargain seekers that the company "wholly denied, challenged and controverted" the county's right to sell. Lest such legalistic language obscure the point, a Climax attorney explained: "We're telling anyone who might...