Word: million
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tories could cite some whopping examples. Bevan's budget had set aside ?2 million for spectacles, but Britons-many of whom previously fitted their own specs at Woolworth's-had run up the cost by a cool ?11 million over that. Bevan had been 550% off in his estimate. About a fifth of Britain's population had sat its turn in the dentists' chairs; the bill was ?12 million (250%) over Bevan's estimate...
Labor members whooped and cheered. Bevan got his extra ?58 million. A fitting epilogue came from Bristol, where a workingman feeding sea gulls sneezed his false teeth into the harbor and was voted a new set by the local health officials. Generously, they held he had lost his teeth "by accident and not carelessness...
Thorp's committee has found that providing technical assistance to underdeveloped nations is no problem. Since 1938, the U.S. has spent close to $100 million doing just that for Latin America. This year, under the sponsorship of the State Department's Institute of Inter-American Affairs and the Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific and Cultural Cooperation, some 460 experts are on loan to Latin American governments...
...Latin American development and have also served as striking examples of what could be done. All have been jointly financed by the U.S. and the cooperative governments. Since the war, many have languished for lack of funds, but this week President Truman urged Congress to give IIAA a $50 million transfusion-enough for five more years...
...Pure in Heart. Chile was already attracting U.S. investment. Last fortnight the Chilean government announced that U.S. firms were scheduled to put up $135 million for Chilean industries. Five million would be spent on a plant for manufacturing thread. Anaconda Copper had begun to spend a whopping $130 million-the largest single investment in Chile's history -on a new copper extraction process...