Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recalled that 9,500,000 tons of British shipping have to be protected every day "on lines of communications extending over 80,000 miles." For years the Admiralty considered 70 cruisers the minimum requirement (less than one to every thousand miles), but this number has now been reduced...
...twilight the machine guns on the walls were quiet, still waiting. A thousand people and a regiment of militia were at the gates. An airplane droned overhead. Death came for the rioters across the yard, up into the cell block, past the barricades which they had piled up with mattresses, chairs, beds at corners where they could shoot down a corridor two ways and back up to a stairway. Troopers told a convict named Johnson, who was helping them, to pull a mattress off a barricade. A bullet stopped Johnson when he took his first step. A bullet stopped Captain...
...Material. Biggest quest: Rubber. Blocked in the Philippines by adverse land laws, Harvey Firestone is pushing forward with new plantations in Liberia; Henry Ford has six thousand square miles for rubber production in Brazil; the U. S. Rubber Co.'s plantations in Sumatra and Malaya have grown from 14,000 acres to 135,000 acres in 18 years of production...
Last week a third fiasco occurred. A newly organized Boston Grand Opera Company (in whose personnel were Russian Soprano Anna Lissetzkaya, Baritone Pasquale Amato, Soprano Dorothy Speare) was scheduled to open its second week. Singers backstage applied their makeup, practiced their trills. A thousand patrons arrived. But the Opera House doors remained closed. The performance was canceled, money refunded. Reason: a $15,000 deficit...
Roaring westward over the South Atlantic flew a big white biplane, carrying Uruguayan Major Tadeo Larre-Borges, French Lieutenant Leon Challes. They were trying to fly from Seville to Montevideo, Uruguay. One thousand miles from the coast of Brazil, their radio messages stopped coming through. Anxious watchers wondered how long the flyers' 1,400 gallons of gas, 50 gallons of oil, would keep them up, figured on 50 hours. At last, many hours behind schedule, the plane crashed near Maracuja, Rio do Norte, Brazil. Both flyers were slightly injured, the plane wrecked...