Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowds bundled aboard trains, buses, open trucks and even motor scooters, bound for the ski towns that dot the western Andes for 700 miles. By season's end an estimated 17,000 skiers will have made the trip up and down the snow-buried Andes and spent millions along...
...Texas five-year-olds still could not speak English. The inevitable result: the children enter first grade normally at six, make no headway in school, and eventually drop out. Tijerina found that in five Texas counties alone, where the population is 90% Mexican-American, the state spent $3,000,000 a year to support dependent children...
...schools in New York City, Buffalo, and Elizabeth, NJ. Last week Tijerina himself was hard at work stumping Texas to sell Mexican parents on the scheme, broadcasting urgent appeals in Spanish on 38 radio stations. Good Citizen Tijerina will not say how much of his own money he has spent so far: "I'm just paying a little back from what the people of the community have done...
...labor. There Reporters Franken and Grove conduct a column called "Checking the Press." Its purpose: to appraise the performance of the Columbus daily press, including their own Citizen, A recent example of their work in the C.I.O. News: "The Citizen has more and more sugar-coated its stories, has spent more and more time on the goody-goody type stories ... It gets downright sickening...
...mastermind the family merger, Getty appointed his affable, efficient son, George Franklin Getty II, 35, who has spent only six weeks with his father since the first year of his life, still refers to him as "Mr. Getty." But his father keeps in close touch on business matters, sends him as many as 20 notes a week from abroad. George, who quit Princeton after only one year ("I knew I wanted to go into the oil business, so why waste time?"), has been put in charge of streamlining the Getty domain. He worked in most of its outposts, was made...