Word: amounting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...amount of new investment in Britain since 1945 is rather impressive . . . More important, this rebuilding of Britain's capital plant has been paying off in increased productivity . . . The government [productivity] figures give an average 5½% gain m 1949; other estimates show that the gain ranges from 2% in textiles to 15% in precision instruments and 21% in the automobile industry . . . The productivity figures . . . help explain the surprising remark of left-wing Socialist M.P. Dick Crossman."I thank heaven," Grossman said, "that the motor car industry is still under private enterprise...
...government policy . . . [There is] a deeper dilemma which can only be escaped by a retreat along the whole Socialist front. It is simply that everybody-not just the well-to-do-is and feels overtaxed. The EGA has calculated that the taxes paid by ... 80% of the population . . . amount to 67 shillings per family per week, while their share of government welfare expenditures-food and housing subsidies, social insurance, free medical care, etc.-amount to only 57 shillings. In other words, the fact that nothing is really free is borne in on all classes of British society...
...year's $50,000 worth of loans is double the amount given last year. The increase was made available by the establishment by members of the Lowell family of Boston of a "Harvard Loan Fund...
...majors, for all their fame as fresh-air lovers, spend a terrifying amount of time in dank laboratories. Here they rub pebbles on porcelain streak plates, poor at crystals through dime-sized hand lenses, and drip hydrochloric acid on unsuspecting limestones...
General need for office space and the amount of work a group would do in its office were the criteria for the space allocations. Many groups whose office needs are comparatively small will share offices. Five language clubs, for instance, share one office...