Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Acheson told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the U.S. planned to provide the treaty nations of Western Europe with $1.13 billion worth of military supplies (plus an additional $320 million primarily for Greece and Turkey). Perhaps half the equipment would come from U.S. war surplus arsenals, so the actual cash outlay would be much less...
...long tied to a one-crop (sugar) economy, the path ahead was indeed uphill. The hardest fact of the island's life is that it has too many people and too little land. Of its 1,000,000 arable acres, 300,000 are in sugar cane, the cash crop. That leaves less than half an acre of land per person for other crops and food production, and much of this land is eroded and exhausted. Unless Puerto Rico can perform a near-miracle of lifting itself by its own economic bootstraps, the problem of feeding the island will surely...
...Cash Deal. A slight, weatherbeaten man of 49, Farrell realized a longtime ambition last season when he got a chance to put up all the money for the musicomedy Hold It!. Most of Manhattan's reviewers panned the show, but Farrell, who knows what he likes, wanted to keep it going. Six weeks and $300,000 later, he made his own odd diagnosis: the show's theater (where Call Me Mister had rolled up a hit run) was no good...
...Coolidge prize is awarded each year to the top Harvard debater. The six finalists will argue two days before the triangle debate in the Coolidge Contest. The best individual speaker will receive the cash prize...
These foundations, Hughes continued, have for years been giving cash grants to "communists or to the publication of communist propaganda...