Word: portion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...religious groups be responsible for raising a large portion of their own finances...
...give the Williston Basin its first local outlet for its oil. Though the basin holds one of the biggest oil pools in the U.S., its development has been hampered by lack of means to get the oil to market. The 445 wells already producing in the U.S. portion of the basin have never flowed at more than 15,000 bbls. a day. With the new refinery, production can be doubled and the products sent through Standard's pipeline to the Midwest...
...camp is over), they are less likely to make the art of indifference a study in itself. And while they may vent their scorn verbally on hapless little Ithaca College in the town below them, they will probably not vent it on the world in general or on that portion of it unfortunate enough not to be attending Cornell...
ANNUITANTS are likely to benefit from a new rule for computing tax exemption on annuities bought by themselves. That portion of the yearly payment equal to the annuity's total cost, divided by the number of years of actuarial life expectancy at the time payments begin, will be permanently taxfree. Under the old rule, the yearly payment was taxable up to 3% of the total cost, and when the annuitant had recovered the cost taxfree, the entire payment became taxable. Persons already receiving annuity payments may convert to the new formula, but in computing the exemption, they will have...
...adequately supported "pro-American" projects and organizations. "If we think," says Rusk, "not of institutions, but of the kinds of work performed or supported, again we believe that our two foundations have contributed immeasurable benefits to our country. We mention, but do not emphasize, that a very large portion of our funds has been spent in the United States. We would suppose that a 35-year campaign against yellow fever was pro-American and that those who gave their lives in the foundation's successful fight against this pestilence served America, as well as the rest of mankind...