Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House authorized (294-128) a total of $480,500,000 to be spent next fiscal year on civilian space research and exploration...
Concentration on breaking latifundista political power often obscures the fact that a country may have excellent virgin farmlands available. Ecuador spent its public funds not for expropriating land but for building 1,600 miles of roads to open up the hot coastal plains. A thousand persons still own 80% of the cool Andean valleys, but peasants on free, 124-acre coastal plots are enjoying a boom that raised agricultural income 43% in seven years...
...Canadian Avro Arrow jet interceptor -which the government used as the occasion to write Canada off as a military air power (TIME, March 2)-some members of the Conservative government want to cut back Canada's contribution to NATO. Last week NATO's General Lauris Norstad spent 2¼ hours before Canada's Cabinet in worried entreaty for renewed support. But Tory Prime Minister John Diefenbaker gave no sign that Ottawa is willing...
...over the years it had gone from piggy-bank size to the nation's 15th biggest mutual savings bank with deposits of $485 million. In a way too the party was in honor of a man. At 66, Union Dime's President John Wilbur Lewis had spent 48 years at the bank, helping it grow and growing with it until the onetime $2-a-week errand boy was a $50,000-a-year executive and one of the city's most respected bankers...
...despite her years as a 'Cliffie, Mrs. Bevington admits that she will have to reacclimate herself to dormitory life. "I lived in a cooperative, Edmunds House, after my freshman year, which I spent in Whitman," she said. But the only thing that really worries her, Mrs. Bevington admitted with a smile, is "the problem of having a maid come in everyday to vacuum and dust. It seems somewhat a luxury and even an invasion of privacy." "We're afraid of being spoiled," her husband interjected, teasingly...