Word: adds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nelson, a 27-year-old Texan, was trying to add the P.G.A. (match play) championship to the National Open (medal play) championship he won last month and thus become the only professional golfer besides Gene Sarazen to win the two major U. S. titles in one year. Picard, 31-year-old New Englander, had never won a major U. S. tournament although he has long been considered one of the game's best shotmakers...
...aged (77-year-old) President Dr. Nicholas Murray ("Nicholas Miraculous") Butler told newsmen that Adolf Hitler maintains an advisory staff of five astrologers. Their latest horrorscope, reported Dr. Butler: "The climax of Hitler's career will come early in September and whatever he is to do to add to his fame must be done before that date...
Regarding your story, "Press v. Lindbergh" [TIME, June 19], I would like to add my own epitaph to a hero...
...President signed the Army's final supply bill, $223,398,047 mostly for new planes. To this sum it was expected he would ask Congress to add $25,000,000. It would be used to purchase and store strategic minerals such as zinc, chromium, manganese and tin and to buy coffee, rubber and other tropical products under a $100,000,000 four-year program which would bring total expenditures for national defense close to $2,000,000.000. No opposition was expected, as there has been no opposition to any of the record-breaking peacetime appropriations for national defense...
...clothes; $1,800 for life insurance, savings; $1,000 to $1,200 on the man's "cash expense at business"; $300 for his wife's pocket money; $1,800 in taxes; $400 to $600 for entertainment; $1,000 to $1,500 for summer "out of town." Add: gifts, tips, Christmas, books ($50-$75), automobile, moving, winter trip, etc., etc. Likely annual deficit...