Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Later, he broadcast the gossip on the ABC's News of Tomorrow program; the repairs, he said, would cost about $1,000,000, or five times the sum appropriated for it by Parliament. (Minister of Works Charles Key denied that the original appropriation would be "materially exceeded.") The amount spent on ventilators in the kitchen and a chandelier in the library, cried Communist Kennedy, would have built homes for 150 workers...
...record, Maranville-was on hand to congratulate him, Senator Clyde Hoey of North Carolina (Appling's native state) made a speech, and the White Sox management presented him with an envelope containing a blank slip of paper, in lieu of a bonus check for an" unnamed amount which the management promised to pay him later. Luke celebrated the occasion by rapping out two hits in four times at bat and handling his three chances in the field perfectly. The White Sox won the game...
Acheson insisted that the bill contained "the minimum amount required" to equip "the very modest forces" which Europe had on hand. The U.S. was not arming Europe to resist an all-out attack: "What is required is rather sufficient strength to make it impossible for an aggressor to achieve a quick and easy victory...
...Plan. Few legislators disputed the need for military aid; but many were critical of the manner, timing, and amount. Harry Truman had asked for virtually a free hand to allocate arms and money wherever and whenever he thought they were needed, on whatever terms he chose. Administration spokesmen admitted that they could not estimate accurately how long the program might run, or how much it would ultimately cost...
...probably wouldn't cost the taxpayer any more than the present farm program because the Department of Agriculture would so skillfully estimate crop needs and so carefully rig subsidy prices that the nation's 4,801,000 farmers, bribed or bridled into obeying, would grow only the amount" needed (that is, if nature was also cooperative...