Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...steering private U.S. capital into the underdeveloped areas of the world. Already authorized by both houses as a fractional part of the whole $3.2 billion foreign aid bill, Point Four had emerged from a conference of House and Senate members at a compromise figure of $35 million-the amount which the U.S. Government would put up for technical assistance abroad and encouragement to private investors...
...policy of nondiscrimination, Negroes and whites had been sleeping in the same barracks, eating at the same mess tables, dancing at the same service clubs, using the same swimming pools. Last week, in broader terms and in careful officialese, President Truman's committee on discrimination reported a surprising amount of quiet progress in all the armed forces...
Then the jackpot winner had the chance at another question he had long and longingly anticipated. What, asked the announcer, did Bernardo plan to do with his money? Bernardo replied: "I intend to give the entire amount to the Social Aid Foundation ..." The announcer beamed. Everyone thought he obviously meant Evita Peron's richly endowed, much publicized Social Aid Foundation. But Bernardo continued, firmly and clearly: ". . . the Social Aid Foundation of the Socialist Party, of which I happen to be a member." Throwing caution to the winds, the audience burst into cheers...
...After a few weeks there was a marked reduction in the concentration of abnormal molecules in their blood. The patients who had once had a heart attack showed just as much improvement as healthy men. But, Dr. Gofman emphasized, there was no evident connection between diet and the total amount of cholesterol of all kinds in the blood. Fortunately, the abnormal molecules, which seem to be involved in atherosclerosis are the ones that can be largely controlled by diet...
...United States Weather Bureau isn't convinced. Despite extravagant publicity in the press, Harry Wexler, chief of the Bureau's Special Scientific Services Division, says flatly that "it has not been demonstrated that cloud seeding is a factor in producing a significant amount of precipitation." In nine months of its own tests in Ohio the Weather Bureau got few results unless there was natural rain within 30 miles, none without natural rain within 40-60 miles. According to Wexler, the New Mexico tests were inconclusive. Rain occurred somewhere in the state whenever the researchers operated, and also when they...