Word: outlay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...island with committee funds. He cited 19 per diem expense vouchers made out to Powell in 22 months for travel in Puerto Rico or "place not known." With bitter understatement, Ashbrook said: "Next to New York City, the problems of Puerto Rico seemed to call for the largest single outlay of our travel funds. At a time when we are mortgaging the future, and maybe the hereafter too, it would seem wise to limit our studies and trips to that island...
...after seven years of work and an outlay of $257 million, Rover is in trouble. Given a go-ahead in 1955, Project Rover was to have ground-tested a nuclear rocket engine by 1960; that date has been set back to 1964. The first flight was scheduled for 1965; it is now planned for 1967. It will be at least 1969 before the rocket will be hauling payloads through space...
...competition on the same story, and all of them committed bigger sums than ever to the one-night stand. NBC spent an estimated $1,000,000 to $2,500,000, CBS roughly the same, and ABC, under the goading of its new vice president, Jim Hagerty, had boosted its outlay...
When planning for the accelerator begain in 1954, the 11 million dollar anticipated outlay by the AEC was unusually large. It is worth nothing, however, that last spring, just as Cambridge accelerator started operations, the government approved an expenditure of 114 million to build the two-mile Linear Accelerator near Stanford University in Palo Alto, California...
...Bohrod is concerned, abstractionism has had it. Says he: "There never was any real love for the idiom, and now the art world is bored to tears with it. Not. of course, the abstract painters themselves, who with a minimum outlay of talent and energy have had their fun for a long time, . nor the dealers who have made money out of it. nor those museum people who have committed themselves so deeply that no graceful or easy exit is open to them...