Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York. From his Midwest power base, Hoffa pushed into New York in the mid-1950s with the help of Extortionist John Dioguardi, alias Johnny Dio, boss of a shakedown ring thinly disguised as a labor union. Dio & Co. brought into the labor rackets 40 toughs with a total of 178 arrests on their police dockets. One of them told a Brooklyn machine-shop owner: "You have got to pay us off because you are mine. No matter where you are going to move, you are mine." During Hoffa's struggle to get control of the Teamster joint council...
Mather brought in dynamic new deans and professors, reorganized the school, nearly doubled the operating budget, launched an $11 million bond issue for new dormitories, got $26 million in appropriations for new classrooms and equipment-three times the school's total capital spending in the 91 years before Mather took office. Enrollment rose from 4,091 to some 6,000 this fall, with 10,000 expected...
...Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, riding the crest of the boom, reported its own record, a two-week nonholiday gross of $404,056, for Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, well over the total of runner-up High Society. Additional Music Hall intelligence: Northwest's star, Gary Grant, is the Music Hall's male favorite; he has appeared there in 23 pictures that ran for a total of 75 weeks. Closest male competitor: Fred Astaire, with 14 pictures, 48 weeks...
...same time, banks find themselves with relatively less money to lend. In the nation's mutual savings banks, total deposits rose $585 million in the first six months this year to $34.6 billion -but the growth during the same period last year was $1.3 billion. Instead of putting and keeping their money in savings accounts, people are attracted by higher returns in the stock market or Government bonds. The rate of growth of time deposits has been falling off because corporations, state and local governments, and foreign depositors can now get nearly 3½% on a 91-day Treasury...
...time satellite whirling half out of its orbit," in daily danger of suppression but also in daily defiance of Moscow. The origin of the miracle is familiar. Ever since Hungary rebelled and Poland came close to open rebellion in 1956, Moscow has known that it could restore total domination over Poland only at the price of bloodshed. At the same time, the Poles have known that, if they sought total freedom, Moscow would not hesitate to pay the price. This potentially lethal balance is the basis of Poland's small measure of independence from the Kremlin...