Actually, there 8 million stories back then.
From wikipedia:
Narrator: There are eight million stories in the Naked City; this has been one of them.

>>Twenties, non-sequential. And no red dye, please. (There was just a story in the Tribune the other day about a bank robber who got caught that way. He raced into the subway stained in red, a trail of marked money and cries of "Bank robber" behind him. There are a million stories in the naked city