Word: totaling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although some wealthy donors have contributed substantially, the total number of large gifts has fallen far short of precedents established in comparable drives at other institutions...
...Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson rashly guessed that there would be little increase in corn production. Even when farmers disclosed their intentions to plant 10.9 million more acres to corn, he hoped there would be less of other grains, such as sorghum, oats, barley, etc., thus no substantial addition to total feed surpluses...
...million worth of this year's corn, on top of an estimated $1.8 billion worth of previous years' corn.* Meanwhile, storage, transportation and interest on earlier corn surpluses are costing $1,000,000 a day, more than twice the cost of maintaining the U.S. courts and Congress. Total added outlay for this year's corn charged to the U.S. taxpayer this year: around $1 billion...
Agriculture experts hope that a rapid price drop will discourage production. The U.S. corn farmer, already unhappy about this year's low prices, has an answer to that: rising productivity that enables him to grow ever bigger crops for ever bigger total subsidies, no matter what the price...
...drop in interest during part of the first act, and for the scattered signs of the pseudo-lyricism and pretentiousness that are so annoying in some of Mr. Williams' later plays. It is a rare experience for me to come out of a theatre changed, deeply respectful of the total effort I came to see and of all those who created it. If my gratitude is worth anything to them, I offer it thus publicly and freely...