Word: chunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bright lawyer named Manuel Ramon Navarro Patron had shown the way. Sent to Bogota to lobby for Cartagena (pop. 100,000), he had campaigned so well that by last week the Government had agreed to channel to Cartagena a big chunk of the Magdalena River traffic that had lately overcrowded Barranquilla's docks. Lawyer Navarro also got Government backing for a modern $2,500,000 sewage system, plus promises of new Government buildings and a railroad to tap Cartagena's hinterland...
...these pictures, which accounted for a big chunk of the library's $600,000 annual business. Hollywood could easily pull the carpet out from under Bell & Howell any time it wanted to. When Matty Fox began dickering a month ago, it looked as if the time had come. Hence United World got the library almost for nothing: $600,000, to be paid over a ten-year period. Gloated Matty Fox: "We'll pay for this cow out of its milk...
...herds, the border might remain closed "for several years." For Mexico's brand-new Government, that was a real jolt. The half million head of cattle that annually went to U.S. markets had meant prosperity for the northern states; and cattle export duties had made up a big chunk of the federal budget...
...Five million acres already have been reclaimed. New projects would reclaim an additional 50 million acres, which would be subject to Government supervision. For the elaborate new program of dam building, power development, soil study and land colonization. Aleman allotted the newly created Ministry of Hydraulic Resources a big chunk of the federal budget...
...other hotelmen cautiously debated upping their bids a bit, in stepped Junious Myer Schine, 54, who has picked up over $30,000,000 worth of choice hotels* in less than three years in the business. He talked turkey to a group of California brokers who held a fat chunk of the trust certificates. To the consternation of Hilton et al., Schine last week paid $55 apiece for 51% of the certificates. For his $1,621,510 he got control of the hotel...