Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Gladwyn Jebb delivered the free world's telling reply. A brilliant career diplomat, a trusted counselor of Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and one of U.N.'s architects,* Sir Gladwyn had just taken over from Sir Alexander Cadogan as chief British delegate. Said he: "No amount of photographs of Mr. Dulles in a trench-and I only wish there had been more trenches-no suggestion that he himself first rushed across the frontier, no repetition of arguments which a child could refute . . . can obscure the patent fact that it was the North Korean troops who, in large numbers...
...Island on suspicion of "extreme pacifism." But to the faith-filled, world-defying women and men who "come in the truth" for Jehovah, the internments, the slammed doors, the sneers, and the outright persecution seem to bring a surer sense of belonging to God's Kingdom than any amount of public honor and religious respectability...
...still "very much in love" with his recent house guest, Rumanian Princess Irine Ghica, complained that the $23,200 in alimony which he pays each year to first wife Lili Damita is just too much for him: "I may have to print my own money soon unless the amount is reduced." Another outstanding Flynn liability: $6,000 a year to second wife Nora Eddington (now married to Singer Dick Haymes) for the support of their two children...
...Much Success. Since the Generalissimo appointed him governor last December, Wu has ably wielded the broom of reform. He has managed to halt inflation by curbs on the amount of money in circulation. Wu has also managed to repeat his feat of Hankow: he has balanced Formosa's budget-not without drastic forced loans and capital levies...
...President Truman stiffened the terms. He slashed in half a $1,250,000,000 increase previously allotted for mortgage insurance, ordered 5% down payments required from veterans-who previously could buy new homes for nothing down, without even paying cash for closing fees. He also slashed by 5% the amount of FHA mortgage insurance available for non-G.I. buyers. (The immediate effect was to start a rush to buy homes, and the scare sent house prices rising.) The President was hoping to divert to war uses some of the lumber, steel, aluminum and other scarce materials now going into...