Word: outlay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the Federal Housing Administration would be meandering toward inflation with the new housing law which Congress passed last week. Its main provision is something called "yield insurance," by which the Government will back private investment in emergency housing up to 90% of capital outlay, and insure a 2¾% profit. With houses now going up about as fast as the supply of materials will allow, the likely result would be an imperceptible rise in new housing, and an appreciable rise in already inflated building costs...
S.472 would help equalize educational opportunities in all the states by unequal expenditures of $300 million in federal funds. New York, which spends the most on education, would get only $5 for every schoolkid; Mississippi, which spends the least, would get $28.50. Objective: a $50-a-year minimum outlay for the education of every U.S. child. Such controversial issues as segregation and aid to parochial schools were bypassed by a provision allowing each state "home rule" on use of federal funds...
...loss since the fall of 1946 as a service to ex-GI's and their wives, the Brunswick was revamped by the University at an outlay...
...grounds. Neither was it "aimed at opposing any Communistic military attack." The only use that Taft could see for it was as a weapon "against the advance of Communist ideology throughout the world." For that reason, Taft was prepared to vote for it. But he warned that the initial outlay asked by the Administration might cause serious trouble in the U.S. economy. He urged that the figure for the first twelve months be sliced from $5.3 billion to $4 billion...
...projects required immense capital outlay as well as unlimited confidence in Geoffrey Pyke, which is why most of them remained in the idea stage until he joined Lord Mountbatten's Combined Operations staff during the war. In that atmosphere of frenzied immediacy, amid the flinging about of millions of pounds and dollars, Geoffrey Pyke had his innings...