Word: totaling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most homes and office buildings are built on leaseholds. Quinn came up with a plan that he called the "Second Mahele,"*an imaginative land-reform scheme (denounced by his oppo. nents as "fanciful") that 'would permit Hawaiians to buy, "for as little as $50 an acre," a total of 144,480 state-owned acres on four of the islands. "Hoax!" cried the Democrats, and even many a top Republican admitted that much of this land was either worthless or else so encumbered by long-term leaseholds that the plan would never work. Bill Quinn firmly denied that his scheme...
...Worse Every Day." Muhammad's doctrine of total hate found a ready medium in some Negro newspapers, which began to exploit Negro hopes and fears after the Emmett Till case. The Pittsburgh Courier, Negro national weekly, and the Los Angeles Herald-Dispatch, booming West Coast Negro paper, not only gained attention from his personal column, but also found their circulations boosted fast by Moslems who hawked the papers on street corners as a spiritual duty. Such leading Negro Harlem politicos as Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church) and Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack have curried...
...crowded last days of war, May 1945, a convoy of Nazi trucks, speeding away from the advancing U.S. troops, was hastily abandoned in upper Austria, 37 miles east of Germany's Berchtesgaden. One stalled truck yielded 23 chests crammed with expertly forged British ?5 and ?10 notes with total face value of several million dollars. At a lake near by, bank notes tossed overboard from a second truck began to float ashore. In the months that followed, U.S. Navy divers and British frogmen plunged to the 200-ft. to 250-ft. depths of Austria's Toplitz Lake...
...billion yearly, raising the U.S. to the level of a half-trillion-dollar economy. For each of the nation's 45 million families, the breakthrough will represent some $11,000 worth of goods and services produced by U.S. factories, farms, mines, government and service industries. The total will be many billions greater than the combined gross national products of the Soviet Union, Great Britain, West Germany and France...
...first five months of 1959, the Red Chinese funneled $60 million worth of goods through Hong Kong to Southeast Asia, v. $80 million last year, and exports through Singapore fell 73%. The Canton fair held this spring rang up $79 million worth of trade; last year the total was $180 million...