Word: spend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After lunch Charles Luckman gave a personal demonstration of his thesis. Eight miles east of downtown Los Angeles, armed with a silver-plated shovel, he broke ground for a new $25 million soap and food products plant. Lever Bros., he said, would spend another $30 million on expansion and modernization elsewhere. That would make a total bet of $55 million that the jabber-jitterers were talking jabberwocky...
...newsmen agreed that, while it was not much bigger than a dollhouse, it was attractive and well built. Georgia's salty old Congressman Carl Vinson, Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, had a more positive reaction. Vinson's committee was studying a bill to spend an average of $16,500 apiece for houses for 7,798 armed services families. After a look at Woods's house, the Congressman demanded: "How come the Army needs $16,000 if another Government official...
...only 4% of its land were properly cultivated, Brazil could feed itself. With less than 2% under erratic cultivation, the country last year had to spend nearly $200 million on food imports (chiefly wheat), a needless drain on its foreign-exchange balance. It was just such a lopsided condition that prompted Fernando Costa, minister of agriculture under Dictator Getulio Vargas, to launch the university project in 1941. Shrewdly wangling government funds a little at a time, Costa built the core of a $6,000,000 farm school that is now a model of its kind...
...grasshopper war is expensive. Dutton's division expects to spend some $4-500,000 of emergency funds this year-and next year may be worse, for grasshopper populations have a way of building up over a series of years. But the effort pays off: the Agriculture Department claims that every dollar it spends on scotching grasshoppers saves $55 worth of crops...
...sluice any church basement with tears. Brack Weaver loves Jennie Parsons. Her father wants her to pay attention to Thomas Bouché, who has him on a financial hook. Jennie refuses. Bouché pulls a knife on Brack. Brack kills him, is sentenced to death, escapes from jail to spend his last hours with Jennie, then goes dutifully back...