Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Available after January i, the new policies will cover death, or disability by loss of hands, feet or eyes for a fixed sum, $5,000, at a rate of 25? for each four hours flying time during specified trips. Each policy is good for seven days, covers stopovers, delays, alternative transport by rail or steamer and airline conveyance to and from airports. Only hours actually in the air, according to the airline's schedule, are counted in fixing the rate. Slightly under the general rate, Newark-Chicago insurance costs 25? and any transcontinental flight, $1. Policies will be handled...
...rest by a $27,800,000 issue of 4% debentures which has been completely taken by the public. Domestic and foreign participants will ante enough more money to make the Fair fund total $125,000,000, twice the Paris Exposition's cost and by all odds the biggest sum ever spent on a Fair in history...
There are, however, two forceful arguments against this procedure. First, only about $40,000 will be available yearly as the interest income on the bequest, and this is a very small sum on which to operate a graduate school, much less to construct buildings. Second, graduate schools of journalism have not proved eminently successful in the past. The two chief schools at present, at Columbia and Missouri, doubtless produce capable men, but there is some question as to whether such men are sought after for newspaper jobs. Editors, it seems, still like to train their own men to fit their...
...charity will go an unnamed sum received by the Duke of Windsor in settlement of the libel suit he had brought against Publisher William Heinemann and Author Geoffrey Dennis, whose Coronation Commentary, the Duke's attorney said, had "repeated the rumor that the lady who is now the plaintiff's wife occupied before his marriage to her the position of his mistress." Announcing settlement of the suit, Baron Hewart, Lord Chief Justice of England, suggested that the Duke might "almost" be justified in laying upon Author Dennis a "thoroughly efficacious horsewhip...
...first of the obstacles to a dependable character," said Dr. Fosdick, "is a sense of guilt. Most of the types of mental derangement are due to this. We do evil secretly and then are afraid that we will be found out publicly. Our evil accumulates an increasing sum of dominance's over us. We who are so free to start are not free to stop...