Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country. But land reform drastically cut farm output, and nationalization of the tin companies boomeranged as production slipped from 33,664 tons in 1951 to 27,435 in 1956. With fewer goods than before to pay for these social advances, Bolivia in a single year more than tripled the amount of paper money in circulation...
Robert Seager finds in them "a tremendous amount of self-satisfaction with the world as it is. It kind of floors me that the zest has gone out of American intellectual life because the economy has achieved what the critics have always wanted it to achieve." Or, as one M.I.T. senior puts it: "We think we're getting a pretty good deal. The world needs us; we're in demand. Hell, I'll be making $450 a month as soon as I graduate...
...prevent these "prominent members of the team" from playing against Yale this afternoon would subject the three players to the indelible shame of damning national publicity and would amount to punishment before the establishment of guilt, a guilt that currently appears dubious...
...other major factor in buoying up the West Indian economy has been a series of United Kingdom grants in the amount of several millions of pounds which have been used to build badly needed schools, hospitals and roads, as well as a number of experimental projects like housing projects. The latter have not proved either attractive to the natives or able to keep pace with the need. The University College, recently moved out of refugee barracks, answers a deep and long-felt need...
...This amount becomes nearly astronomical when compared with the current United Givers Fund here. The UGF, supporting well over 100 charitable organizations, hopes to raise only $7 million from 500,000 people...