Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wilt got a fat fee from Look for his story, will not be eligible for the pros until his college class graduates next year. But the figure of $25,000 seems to attract him. After he gets back from his barnstorming tour, he plans to demand just that amount in salary from the Philadelphia Warriors...
...Solomon, assistant professor of Physiological Chemistry, said yesterday that the proposed church "is out of scale with the neighborhood." He then added, "You might imagine a structure one and one-half times as tall as its neighbors which will dominate the neighborhood by its size. There is a considerable amount of feeling in the neighborhood that its character should not be changed by a single building...
Scandal in Rio. The scandal reached all the way back to Rio. Politically ambitious Finance Minister José Maria Alkmim announced a special government advance of $6,000 to afflicted towns -and gave that amount to every municipality in his own green state of Minas Gerais. In Rio Grande do Norte, Carlos Cabras, who has been in charge of building a long-range irrigation project for the past two years, confessed that $1,000,000 had been looted and said part of it had gone for payoffs to a Senator and two Deputies in Kubitschek's own party...
...nation's businessmen spoke out in great numbers on the state of the U.S. economy, mixing pessimism and optimism with a healthy amount of sharp selfcriticism...
...Three Twenty Two suffers from too much editorializing and feature writing and too little respect for the basic tasks of a yearbook--thorough coverage of the events and trends of the previous year in words and pictures. The edition, nevertheless, represents a considerable amount of work, no mean amount of ambition, an improvement over the previous year, the passage of time, and the arrival of another yearbook...