Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...According to Herbert Itkin, an FBI informant, Voloshen worked both for and against the Haitian government of François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier. In 1963, Voloshen offered to persuade Congressmen to speak against continuance of U.S. aid to Haiti, for a fee of $5,000 per legislator. A year later, for a retainer from the Haitian government, Voloshen said he would invoke his influence to speed $4,500,000 in U.S. funds to build a Haitian airport. Itkin reported the scheme to U.S. officials, and the funds were immediately frozen, depriving Voloshen...
...revaluation can be viewed in two ways. The 8½% change measures the difference between 4 and 3.66 marks per dollar. The increase in the mark's value from...
...because the supply of houses and apartments is not adequate. The U.S. has long taken pride in being the best-housed nation in the world, but today-despite its riches and technological power-it has slipped behind the pace of almost every big country in Western Europe in construction per capita (see chart following page). Even the U.S.S.R. puts up more housing than the U.S., though the Soviets' prefabricated apartments are so cramped and shoddy that most would be unrentable to middle-class Americans. George Romney, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, calculates that new housing...
...that raised about $380,000 for the new fund at Harvard. Over 1500 separate donations were solicited throughout the United States, with contributions ranging from $1 to $70,000. The largest donation came from the Gulbenkian Foundation in Portugal, established by a famous oil tycoon, nicknamed "Mr. Five Per Cent...
...postscript to a study published two years ago, a Harvard sociologist says that from "5 to 20 per cent of the [American] black population (from 1 to 4 million people) hold attitudes indicating a depth of estrangement and bitterness unique in American history...