Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...existence of [Navy Department] reports on the vulnerability of an attacking fleet is not denied. I have been told that I could see the reports if I would keep them secret. . . . Obviously the secret is one that is being kept from the American people. . . . The same amount of money now being sought for big battleships, invested in pursuit planes and bombers, would make the United States invulnerable. If that is not true, let it be proved untrue...
...shelves when the assessors make their annual visits on March's first Monday, the studios are taxed. The way to beat the tax is to empty the shelves. When the assessors made their rounds this week, most cupboards were bare. But at luckless Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer the vast amount of film necessary for Norma Shearer's Marie Antoinette was still in stock, the picture only half completed...
...Committee recommended that the Federal Government appropriate $70,000,000 for the school year 1939-40 and raise the ante until it reaches $199,000,0001n 1944. Total amount of the appropriation proposed for the six years is $855,000,000. The bulk of the money ($40,000,000 the first year, $140,000,000 the last) would go for elementary and secondary education, the rest for school building, training of teachers, adult education, State educational administration, rural libraries, educational research. The money would be distributed among the States according to their needs. Federal control of what the schools teach...
...older belief that every cigaret a man smokes is a nail in his coffin. Last week Johns Hopkins Biologist Raymond Pearl gave encouragement to every loyal Zion Citizen when he declared: "Smoking is associated with a definite impairment of longevity. This impairment is proportional to the habitual amount of tobacco usage by smoking, being great for heavy smokers and less for moderate smokers...
...estimated that for the first full year of operation of the University plan the contribution of the University toward future service pensions and insurance will amount to 126% of the contributions of its employees. In addition to this, the University has established a substantial reserve for the payment of pensions for past service, toward which its employees make no contribution...