Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undertakings and the comparative strength they also give to old established businesses. Freedom to start something now with some chance of success is diminishing year by year. Year by year the big companies are consolidated in their competitive positions. No laws can change this situation so long as the amount and kind of our taxation makes it inevitable...
...before in the history of the city have the reservoirs reached so low a state nor has consumption been so high. The daily consumption of 1,145,000,000 gallons disturbed officials so much that they have warned citizens to take every possible step to cut down on the amount of water they...
...debts. The Dean's Office is much more concerned about financially floundering student organizations, and it wants to protect them from the pitfalls of bankruptcy. Protection, however, means a certain amount of control...
Despite all this, the Rockefeller pledge has forced the Business School today to show real evidence for its reputation. Under terms of the donation, the $5,000,000 must on July 1, 1950 be matched by an equal amount in gifts or pledges toward the School's $20,000,000 expansion program. "It's a real test for us," one official put it recently. "We feel we've got something that helps American business, and now in our drive for funds we'll see if business really thinks we're worth while...
Before 1933, there was a negligible amount of publicly-produced power. The Hoover Dam had been commissioned to sell falling water, not electricity, to the private utilities. Under the New Deal, public power was used to bring electricity to markets that had been ignored by the private companies. Now the Fair Deal promises to extend the field and is brushing shoulders with already established companies. In most cases, public power drives out private companies...