Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, in Pittsburgh, negotiators in the steel strike can't even agree on the value of a wage package proposal, let alone get together on the amount of new money a contract should provide for the workers...
...with a new prosperity. In Britain, where voters had just emphatically endorsed Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's claim that they never had been so well off, the government this week planned to improve their lot still further by abandoning, for all practical purposes, the $280 ceiling on the amount of sterling British tourists are allowed to carry abroad. On the Continent the boom was so solid that last week the foreign ministers of the Common Market met in Brussels to discuss moving forward from 1970 to 1965 the date when goods, men and money will move with complete freedom...
...support McGill's point, the New York Daily News's inquiring photographer asked six New Yorkers a $64,000 question: "Would you have any qualms about appearing on a [rigged] quiz show?" Answered five out of six: No, I'd take the money. No amount of public naivete or cupidity could excuse the networks' lack of responsibility. Said CBS's Stanton: "As I see it with the benefit of hindsight, we should have been more thoughtful and critical...
Light in the Darkness. Nurserymen have known since 1920 that certain plants could be made to bloom earlier than usual by shading them with opaque cloth for part of each day. Guess was that something in the plant's internal mechanism recorded the smaller amount of sunlight, signaled the plant that the days had shortened, that colder weather was approaching, and that it had better flower fast. But botanists were unable to identify the day-measuring mechanism or explain how it worked...
...Luck & Ammunition. The Spaniards and British had about 200 vessels between them, and no one really knew how to maneuver such numbers of warships, nor had anyone foreseen the length of the running battle (nine days) and the amount of ammunition needed. Another unpredictable-factor was the newly designed British ships, smaller and faster than the traditional men-of-war; with them, the British hoped to abandon the old tactics of close fighting and grappling, instead intended to stand off and demolish the Spanish ships with long guns. This plan did not work; gunnery was so imprecise that no captain...