Word: amounted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radioactivity has been found before on Air Force jets, the Atomic Energy Commission admitted, but this was the first time that a commercial jet had been involved. The amount of contamination was not considered large enough to present any threats to passengers, but might endanger mechanics who were exposed to it for long periods while servicing the plane. Though the Public Health Service had not yet decided what precautions should be taken, Pan Am washed down the rest of its jets, may institute a system of spot checking jet flights for any trace of radioactivity...
...Farmer North, the revolution in farming came at precisely the right time. Twenty years ago Warren North could not afford a pair of new work shoes; he did his chores in an overshoe and a boot. Today, by taking full advantage of all the scientific advances, plus an amount of hard work that would have broken a weaker man, North is comfortably a millionaire. But he remembers every struggling step of the way up. Born in 1913 on the farm he now owns, near Brookston (pop. 1,100), in northwest Indiana, North started in field work...
...Center's main objects will be to encourage young persons in the field. A major reason for the joint nature of the Center is that the amount of talent currently available in the field is not sufficient to support two such centers, according to Dean Bundy...
...members listed their wives on the payroll. Vermont's William H. Meyer, reported paying a nepotic pittance of a salary: his wife, Bertha, gets only $4,047.37 a year. Others, notably Iowa's Democratic Leonard Wolf, are more generous: wife Marilyn Wolf collects $13.344.62 a year -an amount, by curious coincidence, that is the exact maximum permitted for any one congressional staffer...
...desert developments, has already participated in the purchase of another 80,000 acres of land in the Mojave Desert for $9,000,000. Gazing at the great Mojave from the window of his private plane, Penn Phillips predicted: "That desert is going to be the cradle of a vast amount of our population...