Word: extras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to Harry Truman's record peacetime budget of $41.9 billion, there is a shadow budget of at least $11 billion more which Congress will be asked to approve, mostly as authorizations for Fair Deal measures. The eleven extra billion are really only a starter: some of the spending plans call for a small beginning but would commit the Government to huge new annual expenditures...
...stop. By June 1944, a rounded mountain 450 feet high had risen quietly. Upbraided by Fukaba's villagers for his bad advice, the postmaster bought their ruined fields for 28,000 yen. "With the money I paid them, and their earthquake insurance and the extra jobs made by the disturbance," he says, they are ' funka narikin" (volcanic new-rich...
...matter how closely affiliated in scholastic and extra-curricular matters Harvard and the Annex may be, they have two sharply distinct administrations...
...above, left) is a veteran in the Radcliffe administration, in which she serves as Dean of the College. The title covers a multitude of duties; Miss Sherman is in charge of the problems, academic and otherwise, of the entire freshman class and keeps and watchful eye on all undergraduate extra-curricular activities, clubs, and Student Government workings. The small concave object at her feet in the picture is her dachshund, Klaus...
...National Scholarships. These go to 49 men in 21 states. The recipients must be students "of exceptional ability and promise who have distinguished themselves as leaders in extra-curricular as well as in scholastic activities." If the National Scholar maintains honor grades, his grant is renewed for three years...