Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...begun to take the depression seriously, despite the cheerful optimism of the Great Engineer. The Student Council, in an attempt to raise money for the unemployed, sponsored a series of collections at home football games. The $7,000 collected at the Holy Cross game exceeded by $1,000 the amount collected at the Dartmouth game, and when Yale bounced into town to hand the Crimson its only loss of the season in a close 0-3 game the fans donated nearly...
Polka Dots & Pioneers. Doubter Williams and, more particularly, the rear-guard of antistatehood people have a certain amount of cold logic on their side. Despite its rapid urban development, Alaska is still a wildly savage land. It is bigger (586,400 sq. mi.) than two of Texas plus one Indiana, and 99% of the land-much of it faceless tundra-is owned by the Federal Government. Nearly one-fourth of the 213,000 population is in military uniform manning a polka-dot pattern of defense posts, and the rest of its inhabitants depend chiefly on two sources of income: fishing...
...Lehman Brothers. The runners turned over checks for $183,070,380, picked up 15,833,114 shares of Lehman's new One William Street Fund, Inc.-the largest initial financing ever made by an investment company. Then Lehman Senior Partner Robert Lehman turned a check for the total amount over to the Fund president, Dorsey Richardson. Lehman originally planned to sell only 3,000,000 shares. But demand proved so great that Lehman increased the offering to 16 million. The response amazed all Wall Street, which had no idea there was so much money available from small investors, particularly...
...certain amount of this liberal tradition remains an element of the Associated Harvard Clubs today. AHC Headquarters are located in St. Louis, and there is a feeling, chiefly among the "old guard" of the organization, that removal of the offices to Cambridge might destroy its independent nature...
...United States entered at a crucial point in the Program would, Alexander M. White '25, general chairman, prophesied in early March, set the Program behind by $5 million. However, Laurence O. Pratt '26, public relations director, noted yesterday that this drive has been unusual in regard to the amount of money so far collected, considering that no gift has been larger than $1 million...