Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States, the Export-Import Bank's advance of nearly twenty million dollars of acceptance credit will provide exchange to pay American exporters for unpaid merchandise. Moreover, the large amount of government aid will tend to encourage new American capital investments in Brazil. The pact marks an important step in the development of free trade relations between North and South American countries...
...been reduced in all departments, no aid can be expected from that source; and the dream of an all-wise, beneficent alumnus has not yet materialized. Unpopular as it would doubtless be, a general tax on the student body appears to be the only practical solution; it would amount to only two dollars per student if levied on graduate men as well as the undergraduate body. No less pressing than the most urgent cavity, the problem cries for solution. A toothache to students, it is a headache to the administration, and a tax seems to be the only powder likely...
...terms of this document, Harvard agreed to pay taxes on property acquired after July 1,1928, the amount to equal the current tax rate each year applied to the assessed value of the unimproved land as of date of purchase. For the past five years this annual payment has hovered around...
...Hitchcock then builds up the story to a high peak of action and suspense from which it never drops till the very end. The characters, passengers on a continental train, are carefully molded to fit the plot. Margaret Lockwood and Dame Whitty are particularly good; and a certain amount of comic relief is supplied by two English cricket fans who are futilely striving to reach England for the test match and meanwhile play a game of their own with pieces of sugar...
...There definitely is no quarrel between pro and amateur tennis," Perry continued. "On the contrary, if we are permitted to continue as we have been there will be a large increase in the amount of tennis played in this country...