Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prize money, Speedster Turner, who has been chasing pylons for eleven years, announced that the sun had set on his giddy racing career. "I can't keep stretching my luck," he drawled. With a decade's earnings of $65,000 in prize money and many times that amount 'for testimonials, magazine articles, movie contracts and other perquisites that fall to a U. S. champion, Speedster Turner plans to cash in on his fame by starting a flying school...
...before they need to borrow in the U. S. foreign purchasers can spend their existing U. S. credits. Last week Government estimates revealed that foreign investments (roughly 50% British, Canadian and French) amount to some $8,300,000,000. This includes $2,600,000,000 in bank deposits and short term credits; $4,000,000,000 in marketable securities; $1,700,000,000 in direct investments. By taking over the holdings of their nations, belligerent Governments will thus have over $4,000,000,000 for war purchases. In addition Britain is believed to have a gold reserve of approximately...
...times 1) of Cyrus and Croesus, 2) of Philip of Macedon, Alexander the Great and Aristotle, 3) of Caesar, Antony and Herod the Great. But these famed figures "are here written of as husbands rather than as heroes." Told in an exact, classical prose, and simply condensing a vast amount of fact, Lives of Wives keeps a shrewd, wifely eye on these celebrated husbands, dissects what was the matter with their wives...
...science of how best to depopulate the earth. Genetics is the science of how best to populate it. Last week the Science of Genetics received more than its normal amount of attention...
...these positions vary in the type of work and the amount that can be earned during the academic year, but the Student Employment Office has established a minimum rate of fifty cents an hour for about ten hours of work a week