Word: previous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...improved program for federal aid to public-school construction. Probable method: federal purchase of state-issued building bonds, plus cash grants totaling considerably more than the Administration's previous proposal of $200 million over a three-year period...
Distinguished Virginians who had given previous impressive testimonials in favor of the Gray plan began hedging. Said former Governor Colgate W. Darden, president of the University of Virginia and recent U.S. delegate to the U.N. "It would be catastrophic if schools were closed in Virginia for either race...
Said Albert Clifford Ashforth, president of the Toronto-Dominion Bank: "Canadians never had it so good. In 1955, they produced more, imported more, exported more, earned more, spent more, consumed more, borrowed more, saved more and invested more than in any previous year...
...half the sales were for cash; the rest were bought on credit. But buyers and sellers alike had the confident word of C.D. Howe that work and money would be available to pay the bills later. "Canada's present growth is perhaps more solidly based than at any previous time in the postwar period," said Howe. "Indications seem to point to the continuation of all-out operations...
...over, the judge pointed out, Attending Physician Dr. Vincent Nardiello "talked to [Flores] cursorily, and he appeared to the doctor to be all right." On the witness stand, Dr. Nardiello testified that he did not suspend Flores "because the matter of suspension was up to [the doctor] at the previous fight." This Alphonse-Gaston act, said Judge Young, "amounted to a ludicrous system of professional courtesy...