Word: outlay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strip about Fibber & Molly's trip to Washington, and Dr. Gallup's search for America's Absolutely Average Man. Pleasant, corny performers with extremely experienced voices, the radio-famed McGees will doubtless roll up another million and a half dollars or so for RKO (at an outlay of some $450,000). Films such as theirs, fairly popular in big cities and beloved in the provinces, are aptly known as topnotch bread-&-butter pictures...
Presidential vetoes only slowed the tide. When the Pension Bill of 1890 was passed, President Harrison urged the Commissioner of Pensions to be "liberal with the boys." The Commissioner, an ex-corporal, promised to "drive a six-mule team through the Treasury." Within a year the annual pension outlay had jumped...
...sometimes difficult for this corner to see what useful purpose a gorgeous production like "Cover Girl" serves in time of war. Its beautiful costuming and fancy scenery must have caused an outlay of cash sufficient to make up a day's losses over Berlin. The manpower involved in its production might well have turned the tide at the Cassino hotel, and the celluloid expended enabled the RAF to take better pictures at the invasion coast...
...meet you, a 20 is yours." He met her once more, shelled out another $20. Two maids who cleaned McLean's room got $50 apiece. An R.A.F. officer who bumped into McLean had $45 thrust upon him. Ruby Costello, 20-year-old bellhop, got $96 in tips. Total outlay in one day: $281. It left Kentville gasping. But it was really small-fry stuff for Harry McLean...
...Butler included $57 million spent in Puerto Rico as part of his $6 billion Latin American outlay. Reply: Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, not a foreign country...