Word: chunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Appropriations. A total of some $52.2 billion, about $1.8 billion less than the Administration had requested, was appropriated for the next year. Biggest chunk: the Defense Department's $31.8 billion...
...riches Houston oilman, last week lost his last fingerhold on the green-tinted Shamrock Hotel. For $625,000 he sold Hilton Hotels his redemptive right to the Shamrock, thus gave up the privilege of buying back the property that cost him $21 million. With that went the last significant chunk of the far-flung McCarthy empire, which in its heyday encompassed big Southwestern oil and gas fields, export-import companies, a Detroit steel plant, weekly newspapers, a Houston bank...
...Government dumps, thereby eliminating extra freight and handling charges. GSA also hired commercial truckers to distribute supplies from central depots to scattered Federal agencies, found it worked so well that it is now using them in more than half the nation. To help the Government sell a $90 million chunk of its surplus real estate, GSA called in private brokers to find clients and to close sales. Elsewhere, the Government has gotten rid of a whole grab bag of business activities it got into because nobody else could or would. It liquidated the Island Trading Co., a copra and trading...
...loved the shot of Central Park, however ... I had to gape with horror at the enormous waste being perpetrated on our city in the name of beauty. Smack down the center of one of the most peopled, congested, dirtiest islands in the world is this huge chunk of valuable realty making no contribution to the city at all - 51 blocks long, several city blocks wide, just sitting majestic and very idle while the city is busting at its seams looking for solutions to its space problems . . . What an ideal spot for a huge parking...
...make the difference between your success and failure?" Dexter Davis does; in fact, he probably knows upwards of 300 or 350 magic words. I suppose a man's got to save up something for his old age but at least he's willing to part with a big chunk of them at nominal rates. Mr. Davis supplies enough to "gain you that mastery of language that will open the door to your heart's desires" This, of course, is all very fine for Yale, where the book is a standard text in English, Psychology, and ROTC courses. It has been...