Word: multimillions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still padlocked, the U.S. marshal sent home the dozens of deputy marshals who had been brought in ten weeks ago when violence threatened. multimillion-dollar fund to sell Southern segregation ideas in the North the way Hollywood sells a movie star...
...control of "absentee" Northwest fish canners and a chief cause of depletion of fish stocks. In Point Barrow, he promised a new water line, new National Guard armory, and gas lines, as well as the addition to the local school. For Anchorage and Fairbanks, there will be multimillion-dollar help for the airports, and for Juneau a new federal building. Elsewhere-"a bridge here, a ferry there...
...entire Hedges clan-father Dayton, Burke and brother James-had adopted Cuban citizenship, thus saving mightily in taxes on their multimillion-dollar Cuban holdings. When Batista seized power in 1952, he appointed Hedges a member of his advisory council. Last year a Batista government bank bought a money-losing Hedges enterprise-a rayon-chemical complex in Matanzas province-and leased it back with the proviso that Hedges need pay no taxes for 30 years...
SPACESHIP ORDERS will come soon from Washington. Decision now is being made on which companies are to get multimillion-dollar contracts for "Dyna-Soar" (from dynamic soaring), i.e., vehicle that will be boosted up like a rocket but will have wings and controls to permit pilot to orbit freely around globe, then glide back to earth...
...Catania industrial zone, a $4,000,000 steel fabricating plant went into operation. Nearby, close to Messina, work started on a $5,000,000 plant to .produce frozen orange juice. At Augusta, a ghost port barely five years ago, a third major project was completed, a multimillion-dollar oil refinery with a capacity of 2,800,000 tons annually and new docks for 45,000-ton oil tankers. At Enna, in Sicily's depressed interior, Milan Edison was putting the finishing touches on a $16 million chemical plant. All told, since 1948 nearly $500 million in new capital...