Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis Dublin's report [July 22] is another step proving the value of the recommended amount of fluoride content in the drinking water as a safe, effective health measure to reduce tooth decay. Educating the masses to the benefits and acceptance of health measures is a tedious task for professional groups and public health workers. It is a job that requires much outside assistance, such as your publication gives...
With increasing commissions from commercial and industrial firms and public institutions to do sculpture for a variety of business and public buildings, Moore, along with other sculptors, has got an increasing amount of work, filling his schedule for years ahead. That, too, is sculpture in the open, with figures fronting buildings, fitting into architectural spaces, giving relief to severe simplicity, rigorous lines, unrelenting material. Though the rewards of this work are enormous, Moore's first love is still nature. Says he: "I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than...
...imaginative, not monetary, values were what drew the crowds. Forty-five dollars bought a century-old bird cage patterned on a Gothic chapel; no amount of money could ever buy the notion of creating such a thing. Eighty-five dollars bought a rocking horse, carved by some boy's loving father, which had doubtless earned over a million dollars in fantasy races. Best in show, perhaps, was an iron weather vane in the shape of a rooster, presented by an appropriately named antiquarian, Myra Tinklepaugh. "They're hard to find," Mrs. Tinklepaugh briskly allowed. "I'm dickering...
...Britain and of the other countries in the sterling area and from speculation against sterling, he said. Bernstein attributed the poor payments position of sterling area countries also to inflation, and called for strict financial policies there as well as in Britain. fied, he said by the large amount of sterling held by non-sterling banks due to war payments to Europe and South America. When sterling is under pressure these banks tend to liquidate their holdings, he explained...
Although Shah agreed that Communism is not a serious threat, he said it did have a fair amount of influence and might cause trouble in the future. Particularly if more and from the free world does not reach Pakistan. Religion, the major reason for the Communists' lack of success, does not fill empty stomachs, he said, and Communism is waiting to feed. But, Shah added, "Pakistan is openly on the side of the free world...