Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the Truman Democrats' side, the argument was that hardly any of the budget items really could be touched. The biggest outlay, a total of $32 billion, Harry Truman said, was for wars, past and future. The U.S., already in the red a quarter of a trillion dollars, would plunge anywhere from $3 billion to $8 billion deeper in the red by the end of this fiscal year...
Across the country, farmers were cautious but content. They had good equipment and money in the bank, the fat of six prosperous years. The total volume of crops was only 6% short of 1948-5 incredible production and 30% above the 1923-32 average. Rice and tree nuts set records. Cotton, wheat, oats, tobacco, apples, peaches and pears were above average. Nature had been kind; improved technology had increased yields by a whopping 50% an acre in the past 20 years. And men had worked hard for the bounty they would reap. As Mrs. Barbour pointed out: "People look...
...Total catch of oysters this year is estimated at 11,500,000, or only one-quarter oyster for every man, woman & child in Great Britain. There is a shortage, blamed on the weather and U.S. invaders. The big freeze in 1947 damaged the beds in the heart of the oyster country at Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex. Senior Naturalist Knight Jones of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries reported ruefully: "Mortality was 90% in the Crouch." The U.S. invaders were two snail-like creatures Railed the American slipper limpet and the American whelk tingle, which bore through the shells...
...total cost of the first 95 B-365 ordered, said the Air Force, was more than $6,000,000 apiece, including the addition of jet pods and a new bombing system; the next 75 would be $4,700,000 a copy...
...capital assets in its industry in 1947. Armstrong Cork owned 57.9% of all the land, buildings and equipment in the linoleum industry. "Two giant organizations virtually preempt" the making of tin cans, charged the FTC report, with American Can Co. and Continental Can Co. sealing up a total of 92.1% of productive assets...