Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the college year 1935-36, tobacco to the tune of $46,000 was smoked away by undergraduates, a sum capable of paying the tuition and board of some forty odd students. This salient fact is based chiefly on the assumption that about 70% of the student body are partisans of Demon Nicotine. The figures released by Roy L. Westcott, Manager of University Dining Halls, show that in the Eliot House Grill and the House Dining Halls together, $11,185 in cigarette sales was taken in last year...
...business, a record. Only four years ago total sales were $276,000. To handle this tremendous increase in volume Sears had to carry bigger inventories, more accounts receivable. The rise in these two items alone required $60,000,000 of additional working capital, a sum provided part by bank loans, part by profits. In the normal course, wrote President Wood, the bank loans would have been paid off out of earnings, thus perpetuating the Sears tradition of financing its own growth...
...outset-will receive a monthly return benefit . . . larger than he could purchase from any private insurance company with the taxes he will have paid the Government. These monthly benefits will range from $10 to $85 a month. If a worker dies before reaching age 65 a lump sum payment is made to his family. This lump sum will amount to 3½% of the total wages he has earned after...
...Yaleman Robert Maynard Hutchins of the Class of 1921, published a book of timely, topical interest, † Based on the Storrs Lectures that Educator Hutchins delivered at Yale this year, and bearing the imprint of the Yale University Press, The Higher Learning in America is the sum of Robert Maynard Hutchins' observations as Dean of the Yale Law School, as President of the University of Chicago and as an exceedingly lively, sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued critic of the U. S. educational scene...
...sum, King Leopold III candidly faced Europe last week with the fact that its entire post-War structure of pacts and apparatus to keep Peace has now virtually collapsed. Spunky little Belgium thinks that her only chance is to stand fearlessly neutral, as she did in 1914, but this time better prepared to fight. The Flemish element among King Leopold's subjects have always considered that his father, King Albert, was a fool for not selling to Kaiser Wilhelm II at a stiff price the right to let German troops peaceably cross Belgium to attack France. Whether His Majesty...