Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Increase taxes-by an amount to be suggested later by the President, but at least enough to pay part of the costs and ease some of the inflationary pressures...
...perhaps the best way to handle the Korean war would be to admit the Chinese Communists to the U.N., remove General MacArthur as U.N. commander in the Far East, and let Britain step in as mediator. U.S. journalists in London also reported that some Britons were getting a certain amount of quiet satisfaction in seeing the mighty "Yanks" get their "come-uppance...
...White folks got all the money and Negroes got all the religion." This bitter Negro saying may once have had an uncomfortable amount of truth in it, but today, according to the Negro picture magazine Ebony, it ain't necessarily...
...Supreme Court considered the speculative evidence. Jacqueline, the court pointed out, had a life expectancy of 50.8 years; had she lived, she would certainly have earned, either directly as a worker or indirectly as a housewife, at least $7,000. Ruled the court: "It cannot be said . . . that the amount of verdict is excessive...
...Gunfighter (20th Century-Fox) is a maverick western: it spends most of its time indoors. Its hero (Gregory Peck) is a celebrated desperado who wants to go straight. With a limited amount of gunfire and hard riding, the movie makes every shot count, manages to fill a barroom interior with more suspense than most horse operas get from all outdoors...