Word: amount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...latter dodge would be no great shakes as a revenue raiser. From the former, the most optimistic guesses would add $60,000,000 to the U. S. revenues. To Treasury experts, this amount may not be piddling, but it definitely is not enough...
...have been made and kept dark because of the sellers' craving anonymity; most big deals rumored have yet to be signed & sealed. Biggest is the French purchase of South American copper; 25,000 tons a month for six months. If it goes through, the deal will amount to $42,000,000, enrich U. S. coppermen with South American mines. The chief war orders whose existence could be confirmed last week were...
Periodically mankind pauses to Oh & Ah over the difference between the automobile of today and of 20 years ago. The difference between the motor truck of today and of ten years ago is even more marvelworthy-in amount of truck that can be bought for $1,000, in adaptation to the problems of modern distribution of goods. Compared to a pleasure car the modern truck is intrinsically as beautiful, engineeringly more luxurious, commercially more important. For those who appreciate such qualities Chicago last week had its annual thrill - the truck show, or rather two of them...
...amount of gelatin in the ordinary dessert, he pointed out, is probably less than one tenth of an ounce. No one knows the exact chemical formula of gelatin; it is a complex protein containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen...
Urging a spirit of aloofness to the chaos in Europe, Walsh backed his policy of "complete neutrality" in spite of what happens in Europe. "Why," he pointed out, "should the United States, a government designed to give the greatest, amount of blessings to all and strongly protected by nature from the belligerent world, risk its future happiness and security by taking sides in a fight in which it has no real concern...