Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago I waded through the story of his life . . . but the adulation got a bit thick . . . Congratulations to TIME, which has the proper amount of respect for a really great man but also the restraint to keep "hero worship" out of the article...
...farmbuilding program, under which the Government in the next four years will lend farmers $250 million a year and give them $12.5 million in grants (maximum amount: $500 for any one farm building...
...first year of Marshall Plan grants the U.S. had tried to spice its aid with a small inducement to encourage intra-European trade. Some $800 million of the U.S. grants were conditional. To get them, the receiving country had to surrender an equal amount of its own currency to a third nation. Thus Britain, in order to receive ECA dollars, made sterling available to France, enabling France to buy British machinery. Such secondary grants were known as drawing rights...
Cripps had agreed to transferability, although the amount of drawing rights that could be transferred was cut from 40% to 25%. Since this would cost Britain only $50 million a year at most, Cripps had won a victory in terms of cash. ECA and the Belgians were content in having established the principle that ECA was working toward multilateral trade, not bilateral budgeting and bartering...
...McClure and Frank W. Hartman of Detroit's Ford Hospital began experimenting with a photoelectric cell technique first developed in Germany. Later they were joined by Physiologist Vivian Gould Behrmann. Together the experimenters worked out an instrument which gives an almost instantaneous record of the amount of oxygen in the blood...