Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Since Israel was created eight years ago, American Jews have sent more than $700 million in charitable contributions and more than $270 million in cash from bond sales. The bond sales alone amount to an astonishing 35% of Israel's special development budget, and match the federal expenditures of the U.S. Government for the first 26 years of its existence. Foreign Minister Meir, just back in Manhattan after touring the U.S. on behalf of Bonds for Israel, was both grateful and impressed over the current outpouring of funds. "I have found that everyone recognizes that Israel's position...
...right to know how many Soviet divisions were stationed on their soil. The lesser fry-Bulgaria's Zhivkov, Rumania's Gheorghiu-Dej, Czechoslovakia's Novotny and even little Kadar from Hungary-got encouraging pats on the back. There were vast banquets at the Kremlin, a huge amount of congratulatory speechmaking and communiques galore...
...third time since World War II, Yale University was forced to boost overall undergraduate fees to help meet its soaring expenses. Henceforth, the resident student's fees that amounted to $1,000 in 1941 will add up to $2,000. ¶The Council for Financial Aid to Education reported that corporate gifts to U.S. colleges and universities had hit the $100 million mark in 1956-an increase of $60 million over 1950. But while total private voluntary gifts exceeded $500 million, said the council's President Wilson Compton, the nation's campuses would still need twice that...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a certain amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
Taylor emphasized that, despite the large amount of work that has been done on this proposal since its conception four days ago, the plan is still very much "in the planning stage. It has not been decided," Taylor explained, "whether or not it would be better to get a student to enter College this midyears or to wait till the fall...