Word: drain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have found two small fields, which between them produce 4,000 bbls. a day-about 2% of consumption. Result: last year Brazil had to spend $220 million of her hard-earned foreign exchange for imported oil products. At present, in the midst of a desperate dollar shortage, oil imports drain away $20 million a month-more than all other dollar imports put together...
...vaccine does not prove effective, the foundation's $9,000,000 may go down the drain, along with an equal amount being gambled by six manufacturing companies. During the winter, the companies will produce for their own account an estimated 27 million cc. (30 tons), which they hope to be able to sell (at prices still undetermined) through family doctors for private patients. In any case, no vaccine can be released except under license from the Federal Government's Laboratory of Biologies Control...
Even ignoring the faulty historical justification, Hastie finds himself involved in still more difficult problems. The three religious centers that he would like to install would constitute a drain on already limited financial resources. Although Hastie has assured the Association he would look to its needs first, the same endowment funds obviously cannot be used twice. In past years the Association has been assisted by very sizeable amounts of each year's Combined Charities collection, in addition to the endowment funds. With part of the endowment committed to the religious groups, the Association would have to rely still more heavily...
Financial Drain...
Suppose, says Toynbee, a pixie Lady of the Lake sees her inviolate body of water sullied by "an audacious backwoodsman's canoe." Acting as a Zealot, she will use her supernatural power to freeze the water solid. As a Herodian, she will eventually drain her lake bed dry. But in either case, says Toynbee, she will only transform her lake into a road and let in the "landlubber dry-shod." Roughly translated into the different, present-day situation (in which the West is very far from being "at bay"), the Zealots might advocate stringent repression of all hostile ideas...