Word: untold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower last week backed up Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Marion Folsom in a plea for prompt use of the 17 million doses of polio vaccine now stockpiled by manufacturers, plus untold millions in drugstore and health-department refrigerators. Targets: children who have had less than the recommended three shots, and adults, who are in time to get three shots before midsummer if they act promptly...
Ever aware of the necessity to make taxpaying as painless as possible,* the I.R.S. also announced a new timesaving device. Taxpayers need no longer make out their checks to "District Director of Internal Revenue." Suggests the bureau: just write "Internal Revenue Service," and save untold molecules...
...business. But the members disputed long over the ceasefire. Butler reiterated his argument that further gains by British arms would not compensate for U.S. and world disapproval. One worry was that protracted fighting might provide the Russians with a pretext to send volunteers in massive numbers to Egypt, with untold consequences to the balance of power in the Middle East. By 1 p.m. Eden yielded. He advised Mollet: "We've practically won. Nasser cannot last long now, anyway...
...Whenever Black spoke." said Nasser. "I went back in my memory to the year 1854, when Ferdinand de Lesseps arrived in Egypt and told the Khedive: 'We want to dig the Suez Canal. The Suez Canal will bring you untold benefit.' " Egypt put up $40 million to help build the canal, supplied forced labor to dig it, and "120,000 workers died digging the canal . . . Britain forcibly took away from us our 44% of the company's shares . . . Instead of the canal being dug for Egypt, Egypt became the property of the canal...
...enemy is the fringe or marginal preacher. He makes use of the air lanes for his own monetary gains. The religious exploiter [requests] that you write in for a pamphlet or booklet, with the idea that he has your mailing address for . . . solicitations . . . for money. These religious hucksters do untold damage to the church cause. Some of them make thousands, yes, even hundreds of thousands of dollars' profit with no way of knowing where the money goes...