Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Snows and Snow Crystals of the winter 1854-1855, as observed at Warrington (England)" by Thomas Glazebrook Rylands Esq. "I know no class of objects so easily accessible by everyone," Mr. Rylands wrote, "which at the same time offers equal attraction, and is capable of affording so large an amount of gratification to all classes of observers." What narrow and unqualified praise Thomas Glazebrook Rylands Esq. permitted himself. He went on to say: ". . . if (this treatise) shall induce more vigiliant attention hereafter to these minute but altogether admirable works of Him who 'giveth snow like wool, and casteth forth...
...department wishes to add to the Langdell library. The legal materials now stored in sub-basements might then be made accessible for student use, King said. The Ford grant will pay only half of any building coasts, and the department has "no clear idea" when the needed amount will be raised...
...supplies under the normal peacetime rules of a free economy? Last week the Administration made its decision. In Washington Defense Mobilizer Arthur S. Flemming flatly refused to set up a priority system to ease steel shortages in the booming U.S. shipbuilding industry on the ground that it would amount to Government interference in a civilian-market shortage. That meant that shipbuilders, who are getting only 40% of the steel they need, will have to fight for a place in line, and few suppliers are likely to favor the feast-or-famine shipyards over such big, steady customers as automakers...
Economists and tax experts hold out little hope for any such sweeping changes, at least in the immediate future, since the greatest benefit would go to heavy industries, whose long-term equipment costs are pinched hardest by inflation. Says one Chicago banker: "It would simply amount to a subsidy for heavy industry. You can get Congress to subsidize the farmer, but I don't think you can get it to subsidize the steel industry...
...independents contended that the commission's decision would have no adverse effect at all on the shipment of oil to Europe. The normal U.S. stock, they pointed out, is around 265 million bbls., while current stocks amount to 273.7 million bbls. The talk of a shortage, they charged, was nothing but propaganda concocted out of the foreign crisis by the big producers and shippers to keep domestic prices down...