Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Considering the apparent ease and frequency with which forces of several hundred troops were pent up by guerillas and the large amount of cash needed in the field (possibly for bribes as well as the purchase of food), it appeared the conquest of Ethiopia is neither complete nor likely to be cheap. As a further indication of conditions Armed Forces added that airplanes constantly had to patrol the railroad to Addis Ababa and, to keep peace in the country, planes dropped 6,834 bombs in a single area in three months...
...total assets which FDIC has in hand to wager amount to some $385,000,000, of which about a fifth has come from assessments (one twelfth of 1% per annum of total deposits) on those 13,800 U. S. banks which are now insured. In case of another crisis such as 1933, the FDIC could issue its bonds, notes or debentures to a total in one year of $975,000,000. Thus FDIC has or can raise a maximum of a billion and a quarter dollars as an anchor to windward for some 20 billion in deposits. Whether the anchor...
...naval bases on Irish soil be turned over to Eire, that England be allowed to use them and other bases to be built. As salve to England, he offered to pay as Eire's share of the upkeep of these defense works $25,000,000 a year-the amount of the disputed land annuities. Thus, at one stroke two causes of dissension were removed and the two Prime Ministers quietly agreed, turning over to trade experts the detailed task of tearing down the tariff walls as far as possible. Since this task will take time, the meeting adjourned...
...preferences for employment expressed by students when registering with the Alumni Placement Office, publishing, on the contrary, amount to no more than one or two a year at best, and the number of opportunities available in this field is always exceedingly limited...
...Buzzard speaks of his late brother Abe humbly, with a certain amount of family pride. Says Joe: "He was the best derned hoss thief in the country." If Joe is not so good a horse thief as his brother, he is equally persistent. The first time he was caught stealing a horse from a farmer in Lancaster County, Pa. was in 1878. The last time...