Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House, by a crunching 310 to 89, passed a bill authorizing direct housing loans of up to $300 million to veterans in fiscal 1960. Since the Administration opposed any such loans, the entire amount would be above the budget estimates-even though it would ultimately be repaid...
...hungry government of President Charles de Gaulle last week slipped in a sly decree among its last-minute emergency measures. From now on, every town hall in France will have a "Doomsday Book," available to the public, that states precisely the amount each taxpayer contributes to the treasury. As a Finance Ministry official put it: "A citizen may notice that one of his neighbors has a rather high standard of living," then, on leafing through the Doomsday Book, he may "express some astonishment at the discrepancy between his outward signs of wealth and the amount of revenue declared." Of course...
Under the plan, a homeowner who wants to move or trade up can sell his house to a real estate broker or builder for an agreed price. The broker or builder can get an FHA-insured loan equal to this price if he puts an amount equal to 15% of the unpaid mortgage in escrow until a new buyer is found. If no buyer is found within 18 months, the 15% will be applied to reducing the mortgage. The plan thus frees the homeowner for a quick turnover of houses, frees the broker or builder of strain while he holds...
...machine has a detachable meter that can be set to stop printing at any point. The user takes the meter to the post office, buys the amount of postage he wants: the meter is set to stop after that amount is used, then is sealed...
...fielled with manuscripts pencilled in Wolfe's illegible scrawl, or typed drafts with autograph corrections. In the boxes are the complete manuscripts of three of Wolfe's four published novels (Look Homeward, Angel is in ledger form), all the short stories, most of the letters, and the tremendous amount of unpublished miscellaneous material which he had written along the way. The library has restricted a large portion of the papers because of their reference to persons still alive, and it will be years before the entire collection is available for scrutiny...