Word: spend
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week the Commission was 120 days old. Twenty of those days had been spent in organizing itself. In the 100 days since, it had delivered no important materiel. But out of the $10,529,000,000 which Congress had authorized it to spend, it had cleared $7,660,282,000 worth of contracts for war goods. Of these contracts, only $80,000,000 worth still remained to be awarded last week by the Army & Navy. The orders: Aircraft. With a weather eye on the way Air Marshal Goring's Luftwaffe was tearing up tactics books in Europe, Bill...
...shelters for a purpose for which they were not originally intended, namely as dormitories." Even totalitarian Berlin has insufficient shelters for dormitory purposes. London is up against appalling conditions of insanitation, lack of adequate toilet facilities and foul air as tens of thousands of people spend night after night sleeping on subway platforms, nodding on escalators which have been stopped until dawn, and huddled or sprawled in warehouses...
...whose stoves might not be functioning at home could go to municipal kitchens to cook meals. Women of the National Conference of Labor urged the Government to fix food prices, claiming that British living costs have risen 32% since break of war. Wages have also risen. With Britain now spending on her war effort more than five times the national income, some economists held that the Kingdom was already suffering inflation. John Maynard Keynes, the economist who fathered the New Deal's plans to spend the U. S. out of depression, insisted that he could find no British inflation...
...Rockefeller General Education Board, Dr. Flexner helped create top-notch medical schools all over the U. S., launched progressive Lincoln School, steered the Rockefeller wealth into many another exemplary enterprise. When he retired from G. E. B. in 1928, philanthropists refused to give him peace, implored him to spend their money. At the urging of Newark Merchant Louis Bamberger, Dr. Flexner took $5,000,000 to start the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N. J., got Albert Einstein to leave Germany to do research at his institute. Last October, having spent all the loose cash in sight, Dr. Flexner...
...work of the Committee is sufficiently advanced so that President Conant will not have to spend much of his time in Washington this fall, according to the lead article in the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin...