Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force-sponsored conference on R.O.T.C. problems at Maxwell A.F.B., Ala. Continued changes in policy have caused growing tension and occasional open hostility between the colleges and the junior service. Even former Air Force Secretary James H. Douglas admitted to the educators that the A.F.R.O.T.C. program "suggests a considerable amount of lost motion," since only 4,000 officers are commissioned each year from the 100,000 undergraduates in the program...
...going into a long treatise on the subject, I would like to say that six years ago we bought our house for $14,500 before the advent of Maplecrest. Today the value has increased to the $20,000-$22,000 range. Houses similar to ours have sold for this amount just as quickly "after Maplecrest" as before...
...Project's work is not to construct actual tables. The cost of collecting the extremely large amount of data is beyond the scope of so small a group. The 25 Faculty members in the project conduct basic research, investigating different facets of Leontief's model. Among the studies now in progress is one on technological change and the methods through which new techniques are diffused through industry--this is coordinated with Leontief's work on a dynamic model. Application of the table to regional problems is being perfected; while various sectors of the economy--particularly household consumption and natural resources...
...during the past 13 months. The commission had found its authority in a section of the Communications Act of 1934, which requires that stations name on the air all people who in any manner pay to have material broadcast. The FCC poll will probably not reflect anything like the amount of bread that has actually changed hands, since many breadwinners can be expected to deny that they have ever been on the take...
Skin Screen. An individual's risk of harmful consequences, ranging from sunburn to cancer, is in inverse ratio to the density of the screen built into his own skin-the amount of pigment in the epidermis. This is most clearly shown, said Dr. Knox, in the contrast between the albino Negro, who has no tolerance whatever for the sun's tanning and burning rays, and the normal Negro, who has a high degree of tolerance, increasing with the darkness of his skin...