Word: outlay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time, the yearly outlay of participating libraries will be lessened by the knowledge that rarely demanded books which they might ordinarily have to stoke would be available to their subscribers through inter-library loan...
...better the chances he has for a suitable place to stay. But the condition of French economy is deceptively sound and while there is food enough to handle all expected tourists, there is certainly none to spare. The tourist compensates for his food consumption by his usually large outlay, but the student, travelling on restricted means is in no position to recompense the country in such a fashion, and though the black market is now pretty well minimized, a sudden influx of soap-laden pseudo-students might well start it off again on its illegitimate...
...lowest income groups." The bill which he co-authored provides for a forty-year program of low-rent urban housing, slum clearance, rural housing and federal aid for private projects. In the next four years, five million new homes will be constructed under this program at a federal outlay of $150 million a year. Besides helping the veteran's problem, it will go some distance to rid the nation of the six million dwelling units which the 1940 census showed were so sub-standard that it said children ought not to be brought up in them...
...Yearling (M-G-M), a dazzling Technicolored version of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' 1939 Pulitzer Prizewinning novel, is one of the year's most ambitious films. It has been put together with great care, a shrewd eye for beauty and showmanship, impressive technical skill, and a staggering outlay of trouble and money. The result is not quite Art, but it is certainly fancy-quality movie...
...better people" - symbolized a sharp break from accepted manners. Jackson himself, says Author Schlesinger, was naturally courteous, but the new-rich were afraid that mere courtesy was not enough. Ostentation became the rule. Wrote one commentator: "Always keep callers waiting, till they have had time to notice the outlay of money in your parlors...