Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present, the senior who journeys to the Library of Congress for a week of thesis study must pay about $15 for food he cannot possibly consume. As it stands, the present system does save a negligible amount of bookkeeping and, perhaps in administration eyes, acts as a deterrent to keep students in Cambridge...
...week ending Dec. 28 rose to 550,995, the highest in any week since unemployment insurance began in 1938. The Commerce Department disclosed that manufacturers' sales (seasonally adjusted) dropped 2% in November. And for the second month in a row. manufacturers continued to liquidate inventories, by an amount greater than in any other month since the 1954 recession...
...raise their rates unless their customers agree, a decision that cast doubts on the legality of $200 million in recent increases. FPC now authorized the El Paso Natural Gas Co. to put into effect a $16.5 million rate increase, provided that it posts a bond for that amount in case the increase is later invalidated. Not to have allowed El Paso to go ahead, said FPC Chairman Jerome K. Kuykendall, would have brought on a "mass of litigation clearly not in the public interest...
...Vice President will undoubtedly be an asset to him, and it would seem that Senate Republicans will cooperate with the White House, at least until the budget for economic aid is brought up. Then Senator Knowland might make a play, for the mutual assistance doctrine is one which no amount of forcible reteration seems to be able to put across. The President certainly gave it his strongest plug to date, but without giving it continued pressure with similar determination, he could still see it go up in smoke...
...simply increase to cover the cost of inflation. The $40 billion figure reputedly selected by the Administration for this year's military spending tallies uncomfortably closely with Wilson's estimate for a budget raise designed only to meet rising costs. If, of course, Eisenhower can show that the same amount of real money is being spent more wisely, he will be home safe. Such a position, however, will take a lot of knowledgeable defending, even in an election year...