Word: outlay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...willingly would American citizens shoulder the financial obligations of such proposals? The cost of peacetime security in a modern world has become a Sinbad's burden, exhausting and unshakable. The commission's proposals would mean a national outlay amounting to $82.46 per person in fiscal 1949, as much as $122.45 in 1953. In 1801, when the infant U.S. was surrounded by enemies, the levy per person which was considered sufficient for defense amounted to 72? (in days-of-Jefferson values...
...save manpower, steel and fuel for the export drive he believes all-important, Cripps has cut $800 million from allocations for new capital outlay. This means postponement of many reconstruction projects dear to Socialist hearts; it also means that some sections of British industry will have to wait a long time before they are modernized...
...that only U.S. help could build up Europe's production. The Marshall Plan discussions, he said, "are the most momentous for the whole future of democratic civilization in the world." Meanwhile, Britons would have to spend more of their energies on exports rather than domestic needs or capital outlay...
...proven reserves of 30 million tons; geophysicists estimated that they might contain as much as 500 million tons, half as rich as Mesabi. The trouble was that the ore lay under Steep Rock Lake and 150 feet of water. Eaton bought control of Steep Rock for an initial cash outlay of only $20,000, and started his big planning...
Most of Bert's competitors shake their heads over such an outlay and predict a crippling overhead. But Bert and son are satisfied. Last year they netted $21,000; they hope that the new shop, charging regular prices, plus a branch to be opened at the new Los Angeles Municipal Airport, will boost 1947's profit...