Word: dollarses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Night after night strikers gathered in the colored quarter for inflammatory speeches: "If a Negro falls, let 25 whites go with him!" When Governor Arthur and the delegates left for an Assembly meeting one morning, they were greeted by boos and catcalls. But with troops on hand, no violence flared...
Many Government officials are aware that statistics could be improved by wider coverage and the speeding-up of reporting. But improvements have been blocked to date by congressional reluctance to grant the necessary funds, even though they amount to only a few million dollars
The new monarch, notes Author Maurois, "owed her five million gold francs" (about three million modern dollars). In her desk, "tied with the thin silk ribbon known as a 'favour,' " Miss Howard cherished the dear evidence-a huge collection of signed receipts, along with impassioned love letters, proposals...
A short time later, after a visit to New Delhi, Bakshi arrested and supplanted his master as Kashmir's chief of government. Quite a few Kashmiris died rioting for their Lion and hero. Since then, Bakshi has built a powerful police force, New Delhi has poured in millions of...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19--Senate Democrats are packaging a defense buildup program that could add as much as two billion dollars to the new military funds requested by President Eisenhower.