Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Afghanistan pays 3% on its mutual-security-program loan. Burma paid 2⅜ on an overseas surplus property loan. Nationalist China under the mutual-security program has been paying 3%." Cried he: "It is beyond my understanding why grants to that extent and loans for economic development in the amount of more than $41 million can be extended at 3%, and yet objection is made so strenuously to the 3% provided in the bill...
...certain amount of unemployment, say from 3,000,000 to 5,000,000, is supportable. It is a good thing that job-seeking should go on at all times; this is healthy for the economic body...
...people lived on radioactive isotopes, the cost of living would be no source of worry. Last week the Atomic Energy Commission was offering cesium 137 for $1 to $2 per curie* (according to amount) instead of the former $14. Cerium 144 has dropped from $1,000 to $1 to $2. Other radioisotopes are marked down in proportion...
...build a repertory backlog for eventually selling the average home listener on stereo's extra depth and clarity. A small fraction of the recordings is on the market as stereo tapes, but the high cost of tape equipment and of the tape itself ($14.95 and up for the amount of music that goes for $3.98 or $4.98 on LPs) limits its sale. As an alternative, the industry concentrated its research on the development of a stereo disk that would sell for only a dollar or so more than the regular LP record...
...Aldosterone is one of man's most potent hormones, regulating the amount of salt (and thus of water) in the body, but scientists studying its workings have been hampered by its extreme scarcity. Now the University of Wisconsin's Dr. William S. Johnson has found a new way to make aldosterone wholesale from common coal-tar products-first major step toward learning whether it can be used in treating disease...