Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bogie has come through again in another Brattle resurrection. And he doesn't go it alone for once, but has a distinguished cast, excellent direction and photography with him. Walter Huston matches him every step of the way in skill at just the right amount of ham before the cameras, never ceasing to be delightful and convincing. Tim Holt plays well in his comparatively undemanding "straight" role...
Before the week was over, Thorneycroft got a chance to prove that he meant what he said. An arbitration board granted a wage boost to 32,000 white-collar employees of the Ministry of Health. The government promptly announced that it would refuse to pay the increased amount. Labor reacted instantly. "This is not the way to industrial peace," thundered Frank Cousins, boss of the Transport and General Workers' Union, Britain's biggest. "It is the way to industrial idiocy...
...forced to borrow between $1.5 billion and $2 billion to keep going without full progress payments on contracts. Fortnight ago, after a calmer calculation, the spread was down to $800 million. Now with an additional $300 million available, the gap is only $500 million all told. Of this amount, the industry will probably have to borrow $300 million, while the Air Force hopes to find enough loose change in its various financial pigeonholes to take care of the remaining $200 million...
Edward L. Katzenbach, Jr., Director of the Harvard Defense Studies Program, agreed that "Killian's effectiveness in his new post will be largely determined by the amount of governmental access he is granted, and by the budgetary limits which are set on his work...
Killian's effectiveness in his new post will be largely determined by the amount of governmental access he is granted, and by the budgetary limits which are set on his work...