Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Wilson stated that she expects the final figures will show the total to equal last year's contributions of $2,000. There was no goal set for the drive, which started on Monday and ended last night, but the organizers are pleased with the amount collected by the Fund, she stated...
Combined Charities has reached a two day total of $5,074.22. Co-chairman David Hurwitt '60, commented that he was "pleased with the number and the amount of contributions from people contacted, but not enough students have been reached. For this reason we are slightly behind schedule...
...since its purpose is to transform a child into a man; but there is no work that makes so happy those who do it well . . . The best teacher is willing to be forgotten. His only reassurance needs to be the faith that somehow his efforts have increased the amount of mind in a world which can never have too much of that commodity . . . His final reward is the quality of his life, which teaching has helped to shape...
Physiologist Werthessen was doing experiments with baboons and their aortas to answer a host of questions about the effect of fats in the diet on the amount of fats (especially cholesterol) in the blood. In one especially tricky procedure he hooked up a baboon's freshly removed aorta with a heart-lung machine and used radioactive sodium acetate to find out how much fat is manufactured in the walls of the aorta itself. With a small branch baboonery at L.S.U., Dr. Holman was tackling related problems. Both hoped to get vital information with a direct bearing on human heart...
...equipment program for T.W.A., has paid for 20 new piston-engined Super Constellations recently delivered, but still owes something like $320 million for 30 Convair 880's and 33 Boeing 707 jets on order. The strike makes it just that much tougher. T.W.A.'s fixed charges alone amount to $300,000 each day for interest payments on loans, police and maintenance payrolls, office and hangar rental, guarantees to airports, etc. With no revenue coming in, the strike will cost $9,000,000 a month...