Word: actually
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ordered up in the next seven years (the Senate's bill would spend only $308 million a year on 810,000 units and the House figures will undoubtedly be adjusted to that in conference). The Government will make up the difference between the artificially low rents and the actual operating costs...
...been standard congressional practice to presume a quorum until someone specifically raised the question and proved otherwise (as no one did in the Christoffel case). Murphy's decision, said Jackson, challenged the validity of thousands of congressional bills which have been passed without a record vote-hence without actual proof that a quorum was on hand...
...trusts were all "closed"-i.e., they had a fixed capital for investment. As their shares were traded in the open market, the prices did not necessarily reflect the value of the assets they represented ;- in bad times when few wanted to buy, the shares would be well below their actual values. The open-end trust was not invented until 1924, when Boston's Massachusetts Investors Trust was formed...
Instead of having a fixed number of shares, M.I.T. issued new shares whenever anyone wanted to buy-and thus kept increasing its investment capital. It computes the share price each day at the actual market value of the stocks then owned by the company (plus a salesman's commission, or "load," of 7½%). Whenever anyone wants to sell his shares, M.I.T. buys them back at a price calculated in the same manner, without commission...
...months the ground around it shook every day. A square-mile area of terraced grain fields to the east rose slowly until the land could no longer be cultivated. The villagers of Fukaba (pop. 153) came to Postmaster Mimatsu for advice. Since there had been no actual eruption, he assured them that the rising would stop soon...